Wednesday, 10 January 2018

Linux from the command line - Finding things with find

Linux from the command line - Finding things with find

Linux has powerful search capabilities which you should learn to take advantage of. One of the oldest, and most powerful and versatile is the 'find' command.
https://www.maketecheasier.com/find-a-file-in-linux/

2 comments:

  1. A very powerful but frustrating command as the arguments are non standard. It should be find --name not find -name.

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  2. It didn't mention "find -newer" which is very handy when you're looking for files more recent than a certain file or directory.

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