17SEARCHING FOR FILES
As we have wandered around our Linux system, one thing has become abundantly clear: a typical Linux system has a lot of files! This raises the question, “How do we find things?” We already know that the Linux file system is well organized according to conventions passed down
from one generation of Unix-like systems to the next, but the sheer number of files can present a daunting problem.
In this chapter, we will look at two tools that are used to find files on a system.
locate Find files by name
find Search for files in a directory hierarchy
We will also look at a command that is often used with file-search commands to process ...
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