February 2003
Intermediate to advanced
1440 pages
30h 42m
English
![]() | The find command is used to locate files by traversing the UNIX tree structure. You can start from any point on the system, even the root level, and traverse through the entire hierarchy. After finding files, you can also perform actions on them. |
The general format of the find command is as follows:
find path operators
path is the directory in which find will begin a search. operators are one or more of the many find options you specify. The end of this section contains a list of commonly used operators to find. We'll work with several of the most commonly used operators in some of the upcoming examples.
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