One of the most annoying things according to me while managing servers is trying to search for a file in Linux servers. At one point or another, we are required to find a file?s location in a Linux server where you need to make changes or have to locate a file with logs, backup, etc.
In this tutorial, we will learn how to search a file in Linux, using the following two commands,
1- Find command
2- Locate command
Let?s discuss these two commands find / locate a file in Linux, one by one.
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