How to Find Anything Under Linux | Linux Today

How to Find Anything Under Linux

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Carla Schroder
Oct 4, 2011

[ Thanks to Carla Schroder for this link. ]

The Linux find, grep, and awk commands are amazing
power tools for fine-grained file searches, and for finding things
inside files. With them you can find the largest and newest files
on a system, fine-tune search parameters, search for text inside
files, and perform some slick user management tricks.


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