To check the syntax of all files ending with ‘.php’ file extension and execute the syntax check of php for every found file, we can use:

find ./ -type f -name \*.php -exec php -l {} \;

It is quite useful when you want to quicly see if any php file in a project/bunch of files, contains a parse error. Note: This command is for Linux/ Unix based systems. This will not work on a Windows system.