find walks a directory tree to locate files by criteria: name (-name), type (-type f for file, d for directory), size or modification date. It can also run a command on each result with -exec.
Example
find . -name '*.log' -type ffind walks a directory tree to locate files by criteria: name (-name), type (-type f for file, d for directory), size or modification date. It can also run a command on each result with -exec.
find . -name '*.log' -type f