[olug] Unix Tip: USE DU TO FIND FILES

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			Unix Tip 1936 - April 20, 2003

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USE DU TO FIND FILES

Normally:

find . -name *.txt -print 

is the command to find a file.
But you can locate find more 
efficiently using du and grep

Use:

du -a |grep *.txt

This will locate all the files 
with the extension .txt in the
current directory.


This tip generously supported by: deepaksingla at mailcity.com



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