find command is one of the versatile command in UNIX and Linux and I used it a lot in my day to day work. I believe having knowledge of find command in UNIX and understanding of its different usage will increase your productivity a lot in UNIX. If your works involve lots of searching stuff on Linux machine or if you are a java or C++ programmer and your code resides in UNIX, find command can greatly help you to look for any word inside your source file in the absence of an IDE, It is the alternative way of searching things in UNIX. grep is another Linux command which provides similar functionality like find but in my opinion later is much more powerful than grep in UNIX. Like any other command strength of find is lies in its various options, which is worth learning, but to be frank hard to remember. If you can even able to remember all options mentioned in this article, you will be taking more advantage of find, than average developers and Linux users. If you love to read books, you can also take a look at A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming (2nd Edition) By Mark G. Sobell, a great book and must read for any system adminstrator, security guy or developers, who works in UNIX based environment. It not only teaches about find and grep, but also several useful commands, which probably gone unnoticed by many of us
By the way, I have been sharing my experience on Unix and Linux command and its different options, usage and example and this article is in continuation of my earlier post like How to convert IP address to hostname in Linux . If you are new here you may find those tips useful for your day 2 day development and support work.
By the way, I have been sharing my experience on Unix and Linux command and its different options, usage and example and this article is in continuation of my earlier post like How to convert IP address to hostname in Linux . If you are new here you may find those tips useful for your day 2 day development and support work.