In Unix-like and some other operating systems, find
is a command-line utility that searches through one or more directory trees of a file system, locates files based on some user-specified criteria and applies a user-specified action on each matched file. The possible search criteria include a pattern to match against the file name or a time range to match against the modification time or access time of the file. By default, find
returns a list of all files below the current working directory.
The related locate
programs use a database of indexed files obtained through find
(updated at regular intervals, typically by cron
job) to provide a faster method of searching the entire filesystem for files by name.
Read more about Find: Find Syntax, POSIX Protection From Infinite Output
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“What a fog! Plane been buzzin around overhead for the last half hour. Must be like trying to find your way through the inside of a cow. I never did see such a country. Even the birds are walkin.”
—Dalton Trumbo (19051976)
“And I that have not your faith, how shall I know
That in the blinding light beyond the grave
Well find so good a thing as that we have lost?”
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