#Find file on linux how to#

In this Linux Tutorial you will learn everything you ever wanted to know about the find commend and even some stuff you.

#Find file on linux how to#

UPDATE I just discovered The Silver Searcher, which is like ack but 3-5x faster than it and even ignores patterns from a. In this video, I go over how to find files in Linux terminal. You can also use regular expressions, specify the filetype, etc. Suppose, you wish to search for a file a.txt, follow the mentioned command: find. You can search for the desired file through date, time, or even through modified time. Just do: ack text-to-find-here In your root directory. Find command eases your process of find file in Linux (CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu)using various arguments. If you need to do this recursively, then you may use find like so: find. You can scan your entire file system with it. The above loop does not consider hidden names. The basename utility outputs the filename portion of the pathname given as the first argument, and if a second argument is given, that string is stripped off from the end of the name. Assuming you want to show the names matching the pattern *.sh from the current directory, without the. The find command is the most used tool used to search for files throughout a Linux system.