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Example usages: Find
The find command is a very flexible and powerfull tool on the linux commandline. Here are some example usages which are explained on various pages on this site:
List all files accessible to the system
find /
used in locate and updatedb to build a search index, and in Speed meets -v to count the files.
List files matching a pattern and execute a command on these files
find . -iname '*.tmp' -exec perl -i.DontBlameStW -pe "s/Perl/PHP/g" {} \;
used in OGG to MP3, URL-Lists for Google sitemaps, Recursive search and replace
Other resources:
There are many creative uses of the find-command on Advanced techniques for using the UNIX find command.
