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How-To: Find files on your computer with find
Published in www.debuntu.org - 17-11-2007
A standard Linux system has an incredible amount of files installed. Looking for a file location can be a painful task to do though a file browser.
Fortunately, there is a nifty command line available by default on any Linux distribution: find.
find can virtually find anything on your computer and comes with a lot of options. This tutorial will introduce a basic use of it and show how you can search your filesystem for file names matching a name pattern.
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