find

The find command is used to search and locate the list of files and directories based on conditions you specify for files that match the arguments.

• Simple find command (find a file in current directory)

Bash

find . -name kafana.md

• Find all the files under /home directory with the name kafana.md.

Bash

find /home -name kafana.md

Examples

• Find files and remove everything except .gz

Bash

find . -type f -not -name '*.gz'-delete