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Find files by extension

bfs path/to/directory -name '*.ext'Identify

Find files matching multiple path/name patterns

bfs path/to/directory -path '**/path/**/*.ext' -or -name '*pattern*'Identify

Find directories matching a given name, in case-insensitive mode

bfs path/to/directory -type d -iname '*lib*'Identify

Find files matching a given pattern, excluding specific paths

bfs path/to/directory -name '*.py' -not -path '*/site-packages/*'Identify

Find files matching a given size range, limiting the recursive depth to "1"

bfs path/to/directory -maxdepth 1 -size +500k -size -10MIdentify

Run a command for each file (use {} within the command to access the filename)

bfs path/to/directory -name '*.ext' -exec wc -l {} \;Identify

Find all files modified today and pass the results to a single command as arguments

bfs path/to/directory -daystart -mtime -1 -exec tar -cvf archive.tar {} \+Identify

Find empty files (0 byte) or directories and delete them verbosely

bfs path/to/directory -type f -empty -delete -printIdentify