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To change every directory to have ug+rwx and sticky:

find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 1770

-print0 and -0 are to deal with spaces in the filenames.

For read/write but NOT execute on normal files:

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0660

To delete old files (e.g. older than one day):

find . -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \;  

To find files, links, etc. but NOT directories, and omit the leading ".":

find –not –type d | sed ‘s/.//’

Copy files in many subdirectories into a single subdirectory:

find . -name *.mp3 -print0 | xargs -0 -I '{}' mv '{}' the-one-folder

Find source files that were modified today (and a few more file types too):

alias src_mod_today='find . -type f -mtime -1 | grep -v "\.o$" | grep -v "\.so$" | grep -v moc_'