Difference between revisions of "Find"
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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 (?) | ||
| + | > find -type f | ||
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| + | Looks for string in files and displays filename | ||
| + | > find . | xargs grep 'string' -sl | ||
==External Reference== | ==External Reference== | ||
Latest revision as of 12:10, 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
