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Uninterested Unicorn answered on June 9, 2021 Popularity 10/10 Helpfulness 6/10

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find / -name file.look

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Contributed on Jun 02 2022

Uninterested Unicorn

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# -iname flag ignores case
find / -iname mYtestFiLe.txt

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Contributed on Jun 09 2021

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find file by name linux

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find /path -name *.txt
find /path -type f -name test.txt
find /path -name failed*.* -type f
find /path -type f -not -name “*.html”
find / -name “file.txt” -size +4M
find /dev/ -type b -name “sda*”

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Contributed on May 03 2022

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find /path -name *.txt

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Contributed on Oct 05 2021

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find /path/to/search/in -type f -name "filename"

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Contributed on Sep 17 2023

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Do the following:

grep -Rnw '/path/to/somewhere/' -e 'pattern'
-r or -R is recursive ; use -R to search entirely
-n is line number, and
-w stands for match the whole word.
-l (lower-case L) can be added to just give the file name of matching files.
-e is the pattern used during the search
Along with these, --exclude, --include, --exclude-dir flags could be used for efficient searching:

This will only search through those files which have .c or .h extensions:

grep --include=\*.{c,h} -rnw '/path/to/somewhere/' -e "pattern"
This will exclude searching all the files ending with .o extension:

grep --exclude=\*.o -rnw '/path/to/somewhere/' -e "pattern"
For directories it's possible to exclude one or more directories using the --exclude-dir parameter. For example, this will exclude the dirs dir1/, dir2/ and all of them matching *.dst/:

grep --exclude-dir={dir1,dir2,*.dst} -rnw '/path/to/search/' -e "pattern"
This works very well for me, to achieve almost the same purpose like yours.

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