The Linux find command makes it easy to find files on your system – even if you don’t remember their names or exactly when you last updated them. Some of the options are a bit more challenging ...

In this how-to, we’ll look at various ways of using the find command to help us find files and directories across the Linux filesystem. Sometimes we misplace a file or directory and we can spend ...

find / -path /proc -prune -false -o -name 'dev.conf' What that command does is search the entire filesystem for a file named dev.conf, but leaves out the /proc directory in the process.

When you need to locate a specific file on your Linux system, the find command comes to the rescue. The find command is a built-in tool that allows you to search the Linux directory hierarchy for ...

You may find yourself in a situation where you remember the content of a file but not its name. Linux offers various commands to help you find files based on specific text strings within them. By ...