Goal: How to search for a file, by name, across a hierarchy of folders.

Searching for Files:

Let us look at a folder with many subfolders and files.

[]$ cd ~/intro_to_linux
[intro_to_linux]$ ls
clusters  data  fruits.txt  software.csv  vegatables.txt  workshop_all.txt  workshop_me.txt

The ls by default only lists the first level of folders and files.

What does the -R option do?

[intro_to_linux]$ ls -R
.:
clusters  data  fruits.txt  software.csv  vegatables.txt  workshop_all.txt  workshop_me.txt
./clusters:
beartooth.html  loren.html  teton.html  wildiris.html
./data:
2021  2022  2023  dd.tx
./data/2021:
Apr  feb  Nov  README.txt  Sep
./data/2021/Apr:
20210403.txt  20210427.txt  20210428.txt
./data/2021/feb:
february_01_2021.tx
./data/2021/Nov:
20211114.txt  20211115.txt  20211116.txt  hello.txt

Searching for Files: Recursive List Continued

./data/2021/Sep:
20210908.txt  20210921.txt
./data/2022:
Dec  February  Hello.csv  Jul  Jun  readme.txt
./data/2022/Dec:
20221207.txt  20221220.txt  20221230.txt  20221231.txt  2022_dec_01.txt
./data/2022/February:
20220203.txt  20220223.txt
./data/2022/Jul:
20220720.txt  20220722.txt  20220723.TX
./data/2022/Jun:
20220611.txt  20220615.txt  20220624.txt
./data/2023:
Feb  Jan  Mar  ReadMe.txt
./data/2023/Feb:
20230204.txt  20230217.txt  20230223.txt  20230224.txt
./data/2023/Jan:
20230102.txt  20230108.txt  20230115.txt  20230121.txt  texttx
./data/2023/Mar:
20230305.txt  20230311.txt  20230313.txt  20230326.txt  20230327.txt  HELLO.txt
./data/dd.tx:

Check the manual page:

Searching for Files: find

Command	Description
find

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Exercises: Find Files

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That some of the single dash options (-name) are similar to long-names and not single letters.

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