Equivalent of forfiles.exe in Linux

sorry if this is asked before but, I was curious about what is the equivalent Linux command of forfiles.exe in Windows? This came to my mind when I saw this question

From serverfault Hailsematary

• I think find provides the functionality that forfiles offers.

  Hailsematary : Ah yes, thanks for reminding ;) I searched google a little bit and I think this should be the answer: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/delete-files-older-than-x-days-on-linux/
  From Zoredache

• find is the full-powered replacement, but for simple operations on files in the current directory this sh-script can be pretty useful (and easier to read/write) as well:

  for file in *.jpg; do
    echo "do something with $file"
  done
  

  Dennis Williamson : You could have spelled it "for files" ;-) [I know, then it wouldn't make sense.]
  From Joachim Sauer

• You can create a cron job that uses find with the appropriate arguments, e.g. -mtime +7

  Bill Weiss : What does cron have to do with forfiles?
  From Jason

• The find command does what you want. Here's an example:

  find /mnt/Pictures -name '*.jpg' \! -mtime 7 -exec rm {} \;
  

  This will delete all the jpg files from /mnt/Pictures, which haven't been modified in the last 7 days (168 hours). If you don't care about the case of the filenames use -iname instead of -name.

  Here's a correspondence between the parameters of forfiles and the parameters of find:

  • /p -> the path is the first argument of find
  • /s -> by default find searches in all subdirectories. To disable this use the -maxdepth parameter with 1.
  • /c -> -exec. Also replace @file with {} and don't forget to end the command with \; (many beginners are bit by this error)
  • /d -> -mtime n. File's data was last modified n*24 hours ago.
  From Cristian Ciupitu