find
is used to find files based on their name or other attributes of the file.
- It does not search inside files like the
grep
command - To find
find
examples for a speicific purpose, I do a web search for: linux find ...
find /path/to/dir -iname '*text*'
Dissecting this:
/path/to/dir
: where you want to search, I often use.
for my current directory