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I'm Veronica! I love Linux, old computer hardware, and explaining things. Some folks call me the Linux Mom, and that works for me. I'm a former "legacy systems" sysadmin who's posting fun content about cool things you can do with Linux, as well as some fun retro tech stuff I come across!

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Demystifying "find" and "find -exec" ...Lil' Linux Lesson! (tinkerbetter.tube)

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Has the internet told you Linux' "find" command is too scary to use? Well, they're wrong. Linux' "find" command - also found in lots of other *NIX systems - is a critical tool to learn.

In today's Lil' Linux Lesson, I'll be demystifying the "find" command, and covering how it works with the "-exec" option, which I promise will make your life easier as a sysadmin, Linux user, or just any nerd who likes to play with the terminal.

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0:00 I say "greetings" and tell you why the find command is important 1:24 Basic use of find, both GNU and BSD variants! 2:46 Performing magic in the terminal with find -exec 4:56 Some other parameters for find: -iname, -type, -user, -group, -perm, -size 6:53 Why does find -exec end with a plus?

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[–] RichieRich 1 points 3 months ago

Thank you, Veronica. My Commodore 64 sits at the shelf in a box. I‘ve not used it in the last 5 years. But I should dig it out. 🤔 I’d like to play a game of „Space Taxi“ now.