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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    Q. If you find so much that is unworthy of reverence in the United States, then why do you live here?
    A. Why do men go to zoos?
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    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)

    After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers; and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn’t care no more about him; because I don’t take no stock in dead people.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)