Unix Tip: USE DU TO FIND FILES

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Unix Tip 2978 - April 2, 2010

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USE DU TO FIND FILES

Normally:

find . -name *.txt -print

is the command to find a file. But you can locate find more efficiently using du and grep

Use:

du -a |grep *.txt

This will locate all the files with the extension .txt in the current directory.

This tip generously supported by: deepaksingla@mailcity.com

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