There are so many little things to remember in this command that I always have to lookup what switches to use. So here are a few ways of using find

To find all files modified in the last 24 hours (last full day) in current directory and its sub-directories:

find …

Here is a nice tip on unix find..

$ find . cpio -pdumv /path/to/destination/dir

the files found by find are passed into cpio and it copies the files with the same permissions to the destination directory.

If you untar a package, and it makes a mess of your directory because the packager didn’t include the files in his tarball in a directory, you can use

$ rm `tar ftz package.tar.gz`

to quickly get rid of those cluttering files.

$ rm `tar ft package.tar`

does …