Why finding files saves time in Linux CLI - See It in Action

Why Finding Files Saves Time

📖 Scenario: You work on a busy computer with many files. Sometimes, you need to find a file quickly to finish your work. Searching manually takes too long. Using commands to find files saves time and helps you work faster.

🎯 Goal: You will learn how to use the find command to search for files by name in a folder. This will help you find files quickly without looking through many folders.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a folder with some files

Use a variable to store the folder path

Use the find command to search files by name

Print the list of found files

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Finding files quickly helps you manage documents, code, or data on your computer without wasting time searching manually.

💼 Career

Many IT and developer jobs require fast file searching to debug, update, or organize projects efficiently.

1

Create a folder with files

Create a folder called mydocs and inside it create three files named report.txt, notes.txt, and summary.txt using the mkdir and touch commands.

Linux CLI

# Create folder mydocs and files mydocs/report.txt, mydocs/notes.txt, mydocs/summary.txt
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use mkdir mydocs to make the folder and touch to create files inside it.

2

Set the folder path variable

Create a variable called folder and set it to the path ./mydocs.

Linux CLI

mkdir mydocs
touch mydocs/report.txt mydocs/notes.txt mydocs/summary.txt

# Create variable folder with value ./mydocs
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use folder=./mydocs to store the folder path in a variable.

3

Use find command to search files

Use the find command with the variable folder to find files with the name notes.txt. Use find $folder -name notes.txt.

Linux CLI

mkdir mydocs
touch mydocs/report.txt mydocs/notes.txt mydocs/summary.txt
folder=./mydocs

# Use find command to search for notes.txt in $folder
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use find $folder -name notes.txt to search for the file named notes.txt inside the folder.

4

Print the found file path

Run the command to print the full path of the file notes.txt found inside the folder stored in folder.

Linux CLI

mkdir mydocs
touch mydocs/report.txt mydocs/notes.txt mydocs/summary.txt
folder=./mydocs
find $folder -name notes.txt

# Print the output of the find command
# Your code here

Need a hint?

The output should show the path ./mydocs/notes.txt.