Linux Command-Line Fundamentals
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Searching: find, grep and locate

35 min Rocky Linux 9

Objective

Find a lost file among thousands of folders, and find a line of text among thousands of files. Two tools, two different questions:

  • find answers: "where is the file that is named… / that weighs… / that was modified on…?"
  • grep answers: "which files contain this text, and on which line?"

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