# find ### Recursively delete all files of a specific extension in the current directory [Source](https://askubuntu.com/questions/377438/how-can-i-recursively-delete-all-files-of-a-specific-extension-in-the-current-di): [[Stack Overflow]] ```bash # Dry run find . -name "*.ext" -type f # Commit find . -name "*.bak" -type f -delete ``` ### Find and delete empty directories https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-find-delete-empty-directories-files-in-unix-linux/ ```bash find /path/to/dir -empty -type d -delete ``` ### [[Obsidian]] wordcount ```bash find ~/Obsidian/ -type f -name "*.md" -exec cat '{}' \+ | wc -w ```