Finding What's Where

The more you use UNIX, the more likely you'll end up losing track of where some of your files are. In UNIX, however, there's a cool tool to help you find them again.

Task 18.1: The find Command and Its Weird Options

The grep family can help you find files by their content. There are a lot of other ways to look for things in UNIX, and that's where the find command can help. This command has a notation that is completely different from all other UNIX commands: It has full-word options rather than single-letter options. Instead of -n pattern to match filenames, for example, find uses -name pattern.

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