Chapter 28. GNU Find
We’ve talked about the find command in an earlier chapter, but this handy-dandy little locating service deserves more ink. Here it is.
The find command allows you to find a file or files by searching for them in a number of ways. Leaving aside the options for symbolic links—we’ll get to those in a minute—the basic format for the command is as follows:
linux~>find path expression |
The expression part of the command normally includes our search directives and ends with the default—and therefore not stated—option to print the results.
Sometimes the expression is more sophisticated: it can also be used to tell find to execute specific tests, execute a command, or delete a file.
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