Find Files in Linux, Using the Command Line.

find is a command for recursively filtering objects in the file system based on a simple conditional mechanism.

Use find to search for a file or directory on your file system.

Using the -exec flag, files can be found and immediately processed within the same command.

How do I find a file in Linux terminal?

To find files in Linux terminal, do the following.

• Open your favorite terminal app.
• Type the following command: find /path/to/folder/ -iname *file_name_portion*
• If you need to find only files or only folders, add the option -type f for files or -type d for directories.

How do I search for a word in Linux command line?

To search /etc/passwd file for the user harry, enter the following command. If you want to search for a word, and avoid matching substrings use ‘-w ‘option. Just doing a normal search will show all the lines. The following example is the regular grep where it is searching for “is”.