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Old 09-13-2019, 08:26 PM   #1
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LXer: How To Find & Locate Files on a Linux System


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As a system administrator, it is a very common task to look for a specific file on your file system. However, it might be sometimes hard to find files on a Linux filesystem especially if you have dozens of different users.There are two commands that can help you achieve your goal : find and locate. In this tutorial, we are going to see how to use those commands effectively and how they can be tuned to achieve what we are looking for.

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Old 09-15-2019, 04:42 PM   #2
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Good article on the 'find' and 'locate' commands.

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This tutorial focuses on how to find files on Linux using the find and the locate command.
 
  


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