Find

Find

In Unix-like and some other operating systems, find is a command-line utility that searches through one or more directory trees of a file system, locates files based on some user-specified criteria and applies a user-specified action on each matched file. The possible search criteria include a pattern to match against the file name or a time range to match against the modification time or access time of the file. By default, find returns a list of all files below the current working directory.

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Famous quotes containing the word find:

    Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    To the cry of “follow Mormons and prairie dogs and find good land,” Civil War veterans flocked into Nebraska, joining a vast stampede of unemployed workers, tenant farmers, and European immigrants.
    —For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    Then it doesn’t
    Matter that the deaths come in the wrong order. All has been so easily
    Written about. And you find the right order after all: play, the streets, shopping, time flying.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)