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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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find a file containing some text (www.youtube.com)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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TL;DW

# find with grep
# + concatinates results and runs the command once, faster
find . -name "*.txt" -exec grep -l "somename" '{}' '+'

# run a command for each result individually
find . -name "*.txt" -exec basename '{}' \';' |  column

# case insensitive
find -iname "SoMeNaMe.TxT

# file or dir
find -type f
find -type d

# define file owner
find -user Bob

# define file group
find -group wheel

# by permission
find -perm 777

# find by size
find -size +1G

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 6 months ago (1 children)

grep -r exists and is even more faster and doesn't require passing around file names.

grep -r --include='*.txt' 'somename' .

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Or use strings if you want clean binary results. (Grep can probably do this, too)

Edit: Yes, with -b, also -R follows symlinks unlike -r