Effective find

Having been a long time user of find in unix, though I only recently stumbled into some of its more finer usages. Once example would be the usage of the -exec argument. I've spent countless hours piping find to a file, doing a global replace to execute the desired command and running it as a shell script; that I was simply thrilled to find that I could do it all in one single step :) (I only wish I had a little more patience reading the man pages that I would have stumbled into it sooner). Take for example removing those pesky ws_ftp.log files that litter your directories when someone decides to use ws_ftp to ftp files instead of filezilla. Here is how you can get rid them in a single command

find . -type f -name 'WS_FTP.log' -exec rm -f {} \;

Another cool trick to get rid of the Permission denied messages that otherwise fill up the screen when doing global searches is to redirect stderr to /dev/null.

find / -type f -name 'serverindex.xml' -exec grep -l '8100' {} \; 2>/dev/null

One quick note about using cygwin the \; that should terminate the exec portion of the find should actually be \ ; in cygwin or according to the wikipedia even a plain ; will do