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Find files from the command line

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Find files from the command line

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- [Instructor] We've been working with our exercise files, which is a limited set of files we can explore pretty easily. But sometimes we'll need to ask the system to look for a file if we don't know where it is. For that, we can use the find command. Find has a lot of options, which are worth exploring as we build our command line skills. For now, we'll take a look at basic usage. To use find, I'll type find, and then provide the location or the scope of there I want to search. I'll use the dot or period character for the current working directory, which is my exercise files, and then I'll type space and add -name, which is the test I'm using to match files. I want to match files based on their name. There are other options, like size, date and so forth but I find that I use name the most. Then I'll put a matching pattern for what I'm looking for. I'll put poe* in double quotes. The asterisk wildcard will match any…

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