Find
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What is Find?
find is a command-line utility for searching files and directories within a specified directory hierarchy. It allows you to locate files based on various criteria, such as name, type, size, modification time, permissions, and more. The find command recursively traverses the directory structure, applying the specified search criteria to each file and directory it encounters, and then displays the results that match.
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Find: common questions
Can I learn Find in Hindi?
This lesson is written in English. Once you sign in, open it in the interactive course and ask the AI tutor to explain Find in Hindi or Hinglish. The tutor answers from this lesson’s own text, so it stays on the syllabus, and it runs on your own Google, OpenAI or Anthropic key.
Is this Find tutorial for beginners?
It is lesson 46 of 166 in the free Shell / Bash roadmap, in stage 11, Text Editors. If you are new to Shell / Bash, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.