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Looks only for directories
 
Looks only for directories
 
  > find -type d
 
  > find -type d
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Looks only for files (?)
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> find -type f
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Looks for string in files and displays filename
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> find . | xargs grep 'string' -sl
  
 
==External Reference==
 
==External Reference==

Latest revision as of 11:10, 6 July 2010

find is a linux command line tool that allows to list files inside a given root directory.

Example

> find .
> find /

Looks only for directories

> find -type d

Looks only for files (?)

> find -type f

Looks for string in files and displays filename

> find . | xargs grep 'string' -sl

External Reference