Some time we are using terminal and we need to search some files at same time. So Lets see how we can find any files/folder from terminal
There is one good command to find files on *nix based systems. (Apple machines are not exception to this :) )
We can divide find command syntax as below
Syntax :
find /where/to/look/up criteria action
Suppose you want to find item named 'myworkspace' in your user directoty, you can write find command as
find ~ -name "myworkspace"In above line '~' represents current user home directory
This command will search and print all items (files/folders) matching 'myworkspace'
Goind further you can also add much more restrition for find , you can ask find command to list only files or folders using 'type' switch.
find ~ -type f -name "sample" (This will find files only)
find ~ -type d -name "sample" (This will find folders only)f stands for File
d stands for Directory
For more details you can head towards - http://content.hccfl.edu/pollock/Unix/FindCmd.htm !
