How to find files on the Ubuntu command line | Linux Today

How to find files on the Ubuntu command line

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Karim Buzdar
Jun 21, 2019

This article shows you how to find files using the Terminal which is the command line application in Ubuntu OS. We cover the three well-known methods to search for files on the shell: the find command, the locate command and the grep command.

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Karim Buzdar

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