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- Programming_Languages
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- shell
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---
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# `find`
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`find` can be used both to locate files and run operations on the files it finds.
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## Main syntax
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### No options
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Without options specified, `find` alone will return a recursive index of all the files in the directory from which it is run.
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### Sub-directory
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If we pass a directory to `find` it will repeat the above process but specifically for that directory.
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```bash
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$ find i3
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i3
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i3/config
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```
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### Filters
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We can specify flags as filters (known as 'tests' within the program).
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#### Type
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Filter by type: file or directory
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```
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$ find -type d # return dirs only
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$ find -type f # return files only
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```
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Within a specified directory:
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```bash
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$ find i3 -type f
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```
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### Filename
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This is the most frequent use case: filter files by name with globbing.
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```bash
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$ find -name "config"
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./.git/config
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./i3/config
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```
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```bash
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$ find -name "*.js"
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```
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The same, but case insensitive: `iname`
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```bash
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$ find -iname "*.JS"
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```
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