Comments on: Finding Files from the Command Line

By: Cara

Cara — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:59:44 +0000

> For example, you can locate anything within the user home directory containing “screen” in it’s name with the following:

> find ~ -iname “screen*”

(1) Grammar police alert: “in it’s name” —> “in its name”

(2) In that example, it will only find files *starting with* “screen”, not files *containing* “screen”

Perry — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:59:12 +0000

I often plug grep into a find when I’m looking for a file that has something specific inside. For example,

find / -name ‘*.*’ -exec grep -il “foobar” {} \;

will list all files that have the string ‘foobar’ inside (case insensitively). The -exec flag lets you run arbitrary commands on the output of find.

Perry
KidPub.com

Parker — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 23:52:27 +0000

I love learning about the command line, I don’t know much about but it’s sure nice to have walkthroughs like this. Keep them coming!