some useful find combos (linux)

finding a huge group of files in the current directory older than 30 days and sending them to a gzip’d tar file:
find . -type f -daystart -mtime +30 -name "file*" | tar -c --files-from=- | gzip > file.tar.gz

finding a group of files and deleting them (useful when you can’t do an rm * on a directory because there are a boatload of files in that dir):
find . -exec rm {} \;

helpful, so i thought i’d post them.