This is a reminder to myself as I keep forgetting how to do these basic searches in Linux.
To find files with file name containing the text foo using the command find:
## find file with "foo" in file name find ./ -name "*foo*" ## replace ./ with path; can use shell style wildcards ## ignore upper and lower cases find ./ -iname "*foo*" ## print pathnames of all files find ./ -print
To find files with bar in it’s content using the command grep:
grep "bar" -r ./ ## print lines without the word "bar" grep -v "bar" -r ./ ## note, can also use regexp with -E
I think it’s good practice to quote the text containing the wildcards or escape the backslashes, otherwise some shells (zsh) will perform expansion before the command even runs.
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