TL;DW
# find with grep
# + concatinates results and runs the command once, faster
find . -name "*.txt" -exec grep -l "somename" '{}' '+'
# run a command for each result individually
find . -name "*.txt" -exec basename '{}' \';' | column
# case insensitive
find -iname "SoMeNaMe.TxT
# file or dir
find -type f
find -type d
# define file owner
find -user Bob
# define file group
find -group wheel
# by permission
find -perm 777
# find by size
find -size +1G
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Just for the sake of completeness:
https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
It’s useful to be able to do this without additional tools (and there are more applications for the general command setup discussed in the video), but in practice, ease of use and performance often make a difference.
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