{"id":374,"date":"2009-12-23T15:30:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T15:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/?p=374"},"modified":"2010-01-23T11:23:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T11:23:52","slug":"how-to-search-for-files-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"How to search for files in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can use the find command to do a wildcard search for files.<br \/>\nFor example, the following will do a wild card name search :-<\/p>\n<pre>lynx \/ # find -name 'epdfview'\r\n.\/home\/mms\/.config\/epdfview\r\n.\/usr\/bin\/epdfview\r\n.\/usr\/share\/epdfview\r\nlynx \/ #<\/pre>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The default is to search the current folder and all subfolders. You can search for a number of other fields as well as name, and there are lots of other options, see <strong><a title=\"http:\/\/www.computerhope.com\/unix\/ufind.htm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.computerhope.com\/unix\/ufind.htm\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can use the find command to do a wildcard search for files. For example, the following will do a wild card name search :- lynx \/ # find -name &#8216;epdfview&#8217; .\/home\/mms\/.config\/epdfview .\/usr\/bin\/epdfview .\/usr\/share\/epdfview lynx \/ # \u00a0 The default is to search the current folder and all subfolders. You can search for a number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45],"tags":[186,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}