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Linux/Mac Terminal Tutorial: How To Use The find Command

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In this Linux/Mac terminal tutorial, we will be learning how to use the find command. The find command allows us to scan through our file system in order to find files and directories that meet a certain criteria. We will also learn how to perform actions on the results that are Let's get started. ✅ Support My Channel Through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/coreyms ✅ Become a Channel Member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCezIgC97PvUuR4_gbFUs5g/join ✅ One-Time Contribution Through PayPal: https://goo.gl/649HFY ✅ Cryptocurrency Donations: Bitcoin Wallet - 3MPH8oY2EAgbLVy7RBMinwcBntggi7qeG3 Ethereum Wallet - 0x151649418616068fB46C3598083817101d3bCD33 Litecoin Wallet - MPvEBY5fxGkmPQgocfJbxP6EmTo5UUXMot ✅ Corey's Public Amazon Wishlist http://a.co/inIyro1 ✅ Equipment I Use and Books I Recommend: https://www.amazon.com/shop/coreyschafer ▶️ You Can Find Me On: My Website - http://coreyms.com/ My Second Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/coreymschafer Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/CoreyMSchafer Twitter - https://twitter.com/CoreyMSchafer Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/coreymschafer/ #Linux #Mac

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In this video we'll be learning how to use the find command from within a Linux or Mac terminal.", 'start': 0.189, 'duration': 5.945}, {'end': 14.381, 'text': 'Now. the find command is a powerful tool that allows us to quickly and easily scan through our file system to find files and directories that meet a certain criteria.', 'start': 6.494, 'duration': 7.887}, {'end': 17.524, 'text': 'And we can even perform actions on those results that we get back.', 'start': 14.701, 'duration': 2.823}, {'end': 24.026, 'text': 'Now, the reason I wanted to walk through how to use this tool is because sometimes I see people who write scripts that are more complex than they need to be,', 'start': 17.944, 'duration': 6.082}, {'end': 26.407, 'text': "whether that's in Python or another language,", 'start': 24.026, 'duration': 2.381}], 'summary': 'Learn how to use the find command in linux/mac terminal.', 'duration': 26.218, 'max_score': 0.189, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/KCVaNb_zOuw/pics/KCVaNb_zOuw189.jpg'}, {'end': 95.005, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 61.927, 'weight': 0.819, 'content': [{'end': 64.108, 'text': 'and that dot signifies the current directory.', 'start': 61.927, 'duration': 2.181}, {'end': 71.652, 'text': 'Now, if I run this, then you can see that we get all of the files and directories below the current directory that we searched.', 'start': 64.568, 'duration': 7.084}, {'end': 75.374, 'text': 'And you can see that it even searched down through some of the subdirectories here.', 'start': 72.012, 'duration': 3.362}, {'end': 84.479, 'text': 'Now, if I wanted to find all of the files and directories within a specific directory, then I can just replace that dot with a directory name.', 'start': 75.814, 'duration': 8.665}, {'end': 95.005, 'text': 'So if I wanted to find all the files and folders within my website demo directory, then I could just say find website demo, And if I run that,', 'start': 84.879, 'duration': 10.126}], 'summary': "Using 'find' command to search files and directories in current and specific directory.", 'duration': 33.078, 'max_score': 61.927, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/KCVaNb_zOuw/pics/KCVaNb_zOuw61927.jpg'}, {'end': 148.888, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 100.508, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 103.19, 'text': "Okay, so now let's start filtering out some of the results.", 'start': 100.508, 'duration': 2.682}, {'end': 107.492, 'text': "So let's say that I wanted to find only the directories and exclude the files.", 'start': 103.63, 'duration': 3.862}, {'end': 110.654, 'text': "Now to do that, I'm going to do this in my current directory.", 'start': 107.892, 'duration': 2.762}, {'end': 117.958, 'text': "So I'm going to say find within my current directory, and I'm just going to say type D, and this will find all the directories and no files.", 'start': 110.674, 'duration': 7.284}, {'end': 122.521, 'text': 'So there you can see that I got a result of all of my directories below my current directory.', 'start': 118.398, 'duration': 4.123}, {'end': 129.689, 'text': 'Now if I wanted to find all of the files and no directories, then I can just replace that D with an F.', 'start': 122.961, 'duration': 6.728}, {'end': 134.894, 'text': "Now if I run this, then you'll see that it returns all of the files and no directories.", 'start': 129.689, 'duration': 5.205}, {'end': 139.779, 'text': "Okay, so now let's say that I wanted to find a file with a specific name.", 'start': 135.655, 'duration': 4.124}, {'end': 148.888, 'text': "Now I know that there's a file below my current directory somewhere called test underscore one dot TXT, but I can't remember exactly where that is.", 'start': 140.159, 'duration': 8.729}], 'summary': "Using 'find' command to filter directories and files, including finding specific file by name.", 'duration': 48.38, 'max_score': 100.508, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/KCVaNb_zOuw/pics/KCVaNb_zOuw100508.jpg'}], 'start': 0.189, 'title': 'Using the find command in linux and mac terminal', 'summary': 'Introduces the powerful find command in linux and mac terminals, emphasizing its ability to quickly scan through the file system to find files and directories, including filtering by type and name, with examples and key points such as finding specific files and using wildcards.', 'chapters': [{'end': 33.79, 'start': 0.189, 'title': 'Using the find command in linux and mac terminal', 'summary': 'Introduces the powerful find command in linux and mac terminals, emphasizing its ability to quickly scan through the file system to find files and directories that meet specific criteria and perform actions on the results.', 'duration': 33.601, 'highlights': ['The find command allows users to quickly and easily scan through the file system to find files and directories that meet a certain criteria. 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'src': 'embed', 'start': 239.727, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 247.632, 'text': 'Now that wildcard that I showed you, sometimes that is useful in order to find files with certain extensions.', 'start': 239.727, 'duration': 7.905}, {'end': 254.017, 'text': "So let's say that I wanted to find all Python files below my current directory, then I could just say star.py.", 'start': 248.113, 'duration': 5.904}, {'end': 264.646, 'text': 'so you can see when i ran that that it did return some python files within some of these subdirectories here, and this star just means anything.', 'start': 256.238, 'duration': 8.408}], 'summary': 'Using wildcard (*) can help find python files within subdirectories.', 'duration': 24.919, 'max_score': 239.727, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/KCVaNb_zOuw/pics/KCVaNb_zOuw239727.jpg'}, {'end': 317.222, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 293.286, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 300.93, 'text': "so when you will use this minus 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'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 514.809, 'text': "So those didn't get returned by that find command.", 'start': 512.688, 'duration': 2.121}, {'end': 522.115, 'text': 'Okay, so another common search that I like to perform is finding any files that I have created that are currently empty.', 'start': 515.21, 'duration': 6.905}, {'end': 527.819, 'text': "Now this can come in handy if you've created a bunch of test files that are just lingering around that don't actually have any data.", 'start': 522.434, 'duration': 5.385}, {'end': 535.466, 'text': 'So to do this, we can just find all of the files and we can just tack on this empty option here.', 'start': 528.219, 'duration': 7.247}, {'end': 541.472, 'text': 'And if I run that, then you can see that a lot of these files are empty because I just created these to do this walkthrough.', 'start': 535.926, 'duration': 5.546}, {'end': 546.567, 'text': "Okay, so one of the last filters that we're going to look at is how to search based on permissions.", 'start': 542.324, 'duration': 4.243}, {'end': 552.95, 'text': 'And I do this a lot, especially when working with websites and checking to make sure that certain permissions are what they should be.', 'start': 546.947, 'duration': 6.003}], 'summary': 'The speaker discusses using find command to search for specific files, including empty files and files based on permissions.', 'duration': 40.262, 'max_score': 512.688, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/KCVaNb_zOuw/pics/KCVaNb_zOuw512688.jpg'}, {'end': 679.33, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 652.607, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 660.413, 'text': 'So if we run find on the website demo directory, then this will return every file and directory within that folder.', 'start': 652.607, 'duration': 7.806}, {'end': 671.902, 'text': 'So now if I want to set the user and group on all those results, then we could use this exec option here to execute a command on those results.', 'start': 660.833, 'duration': 11.069}, {'end': 679.33, 'text': 'Now the command that I want to execute is this chown and that will change the owner of each result.', 'start': 672.303, 'duration': 7.027}], 'summary': 'Using find command to return files and directories in website demo directory, then using exec option to set user and group and chown command to change owner.', 'duration': 26.723, 'max_score': 652.607, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/KCVaNb_zOuw/pics/KCVaNb_zOuw652607.jpg'}], 'start': 239.727, 'title': 'Filtering and using find command', 'summary': 'Covers filtering files and directories based on metadata, using wildcards, -mmin, +mmin, and -mtime options, as well as using the find command for searching based on access time, file size, and permissions, including executing actions on search results.', 'chapters': [{'end': 420.272, 'start': 239.727, 'title': 'Filtering files and directories based on metadata', 'summary': 'Discusses using wildcards 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Python files returned from the search using 'star.py'.", 'Filtering files based on modification time, using the -mmin option to find files modified in the last 10 minutes, and explaining the use of the minus sign to specify time durations. Demonstrating the use of -mmin option to find files modified in the last 10 minutes.', 'Combining multiple time searches to find files modified within a specific time range, exemplifying the use of time duration options to refine file searches. Demonstrating combining time searches to find files modified within a specific time range.', 'Using the -mtime option to find files modified a certain number of days ago, illustrating the use of time duration options for searching files modified in days. Illustrating the use of -mtime option to find files modified a certain number of days ago.']}, {'end': 721.545, 'start': 420.272, 'title': 'Using find command for file search', 'summary': 'Discusses using the find command to search for files based on access time, file size, empty files, and permissions, demonstrating specific commands and their results, and highlighting the ability to execute actions on search results.', 'duration': 301.273, 'highlights': ['The find command can be used to search for files based on access time, file size, empty files, and permissions, providing specific commands and results, such as finding files over a certain size and files that are empty.', 'The find command can also be used to search for files based on permissions, demonstrating the ability to find files and directories with specific permission levels, such as 777.', 'The chapter showcases the capability of the find command to execute actions on search results, such as changing the owner of files and directories within a folder using the exec option and specific commands like chown.']}], 'duration': 481.818, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/KCVaNb_zOuw/pics/KCVaNb_zOuw239727.jpg', 'highlights': ["Using wildcards to find files with specific extensions, such as finding all Python files below the current directory with the command 'star.py', demonstrating the functionality of wildcards in file searches.", 'The find command can be used to search for files based on access time, file size, empty files, and permissions, providing specific commands and results, such as finding files over a certain size and files that are empty.', 'Using the -mtime option to find files modified a certain number of days ago, illustrating the use of time duration options for searching files modified in days.', 'The chapter showcases the capability of the find command to execute actions on search results, such as changing the owner of files and directories within a folder using the exec option and specific commands like chown.', 'Filtering files based on modification time, using the -mmin option to find files modified in the last 10 minutes, and explaining the use of the minus sign to specify time durations.']}, {'end': 1053.637, 'segs': [{'end': 812.886, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 789.853, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 798.318, 'text': 'So now if I wanted to see if that worked, then I can do a find within that website demo directory, and I can search for permissions of 775.', 'start': 789.853, 'duration': 8.465}, {'end': 802.641, 'text': 'And if I run that, then you can see that it returned all of our directories.', 'start': 798.318, 'duration': 4.323}, {'end': 809.085, 'text': 'So our directories within website demo did get those new permissions of 775.', 'start': 803.101, 'duration': 5.984}, {'end': 812.886, 'text': "Okay, so now let's change the file permissions to 664.", 'start': 809.085, 'duration': 3.801}], 'summary': 'Directories within website demo have permissions of 775, and files have 664.', 'duration': 23.033, 'max_score': 789.853, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/KCVaNb_zOuw/pics/KCVaNb_zOuw789853.jpg'}, {'end': 897.035, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 872.484, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 879.146, 'text': 'then you should always run the find command to see what your results are before doing anything to those results,', 'start': 872.484, 'duration': 6.662}, {'end': 882.427, 'text': 'because you might not be removing the files or folders that you expect.', 'start': 879.146, 'duration': 3.281}, {'end': 888.229, 'text': "So running the find command first is like a dry run that allows you to see the results that you'll be working with.", 'start': 882.787, 'duration': 5.442}, {'end': 897.035, 'text': "So you can see when I ran that command that our results aren't what we wanted because I only wanted to remove all the files in the current directory.", 'start': 888.709, 'duration': 8.326}], 'summary': "Running 'find' command as a dry run allows you to see the results before taking action.", 'duration': 24.551, 'max_score': 872.484, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/KCVaNb_zOuw/pics/KCVaNb_zOuw872484.jpg'}, {'end': 936.048, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 910.263, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 917.011, 'text': 'So instead, to find only the files in our current directory, then we can set this max depth option.', 'start': 910.263, 'duration': 6.748}, {'end': 922.317, 'text': "So I can set a max depth here, and I'm just going to set this to 1.", 'start': 917.391, 'duration': 4.926}, {'end': 929.005, 'text': "Now setting a max depth of 1 means that you're only going to search down one directory, which is the current directory.", 'start': 922.317, 'duration': 6.688}, {'end': 936.048, 'text': 'So you can see when I ran that, that it got our correct results and that it excluded the matching files within our subdirectories.', 'start': 929.505, 'duration': 6.543}], 'summary': 'Setting max depth to 1 limits search to current directory only.', 'duration': 25.785, 'max_score': 910.263, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/KCVaNb_zOuw/pics/KCVaNb_zOuw910263.jpg'}, {'end': 988.982, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 965.646, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 974.492, 'text': "So you can see how these find commands can be extremely detailed as to the results that you're getting back and allow you to execute certain commands on those results.", 'start': 965.646, 'duration': 8.846}, {'end': 977.234, 'text': 'So this can be extremely useful in your project.', 'start': 975.133, 'duration': 2.101}, {'end': 985.62, 'text': "So, for example, sometimes I'll see Python programmers who maybe want to clean up any of their PYC files that they have lingering around,", 'start': 977.294, 'duration': 8.326}, {'end': 988.982, 'text': 'and I sometimes see questions where people ask how to delete those.', 'start': 985.62, 'duration': 3.362}], 'summary': 'Using find commands can provide detailed results and enable execution of specific commands, useful for tasks like cleaning up lingering pyc files in python projects.', 'duration': 23.336, 'max_score': 965.646, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/KCVaNb_zOuw/pics/KCVaNb_zOuw965646.jpg'}, {'end': 1038.602, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1009.485, 'weight': 7, 'content': [{'end': 1011.226, 'text': "Okay, so I think that's going to do it for this video.", 'start': 1009.485, 'duration': 1.741}, {'end': 1016.408, 'text': "Like I said, there's a ton of different things that you can do with this find command if you just take the time to play around with it.", 'start': 1011.826, 'duration': 4.582}, {'end': 1020.289, 'text': "Now, if you get good with commands like this, then it's going to save you a lot of time.", 'start': 1016.808, 'duration': 3.481}, {'end': 1025.371, 'text': 'So, like I said, instead of writing complicated scripts to do these exact same things,', 'start': 1020.65, 'duration': 4.721}, {'end': 1028.772, 'text': 'you can just run a quick terminal command to do exactly what you want.', 'start': 1025.371, 'duration': 3.401}, {'end': 1031.494, 'text': 'Now, if you do have any questions about what we covered in this video,', 'start': 1029.173, 'duration': 2.321}, {'end': 1034.698, 'text': "then feel free to ask in the comments section below and I'll do my best to answer those.", 'start': 1031.494, 'duration': 3.204}, {'end': 1038.602, 'text': 'Now if you enjoy these tutorials and would like to support them then there are several ways you can do that.', 'start': 1035.079, 'duration': 3.523}], 'summary': 'Learn to save time by mastering terminal commands for various tasks.', 'duration': 29.117, 'max_score': 1009.485, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/KCVaNb_zOuw/pics/KCVaNb_zOuw1009485.jpg'}], 'start': 721.906, 'title': 'Directory and file permissions and using find command', 'summary': 'Demonstrates changing directory and file permissions using commands such as ls-la, find, and change mod, achieving 775 permissions for directories and 664 permissions for files, with successful outcomes demonstrated through returned results. it also explains the importance of using the find command to avoid unexpected results when deleting or modifying files, and highlights how to use the max depth option to only search for files in the current directory, saving time and ensuring accuracy.', 'chapters': [{'end': 852.417, 'start': 721.906, 'title': 'Changing directory and file permissions', 'summary': 'Demonstrates changing directory and file permissions using commands such as ls-la, find, and change mod, achieving 775 permissions for directories and 664 permissions for files, with successful outcomes demonstrated through returned results.', 'duration': 130.511, 'highlights': ['The chapter demonstrates changing directory and file permissions using commands such as ls-la, find, and change mod, achieving 775 permissions for directories and 664 permissions for files, with successful outcomes demonstrated through returned results.', 'Using the find command to search for permissions of 775 within the website demo directory resulted in all directories getting the new permissions of 775.', 'Changing file permissions to 664 was achieved by finding the files and executing the command, resulting in all files underneath the website demo directory having the new permission levels of 664.']}, {'end': 1053.637, 'start': 852.817, 'title': 'Using find command for file management', 'summary': 'Explains the importance of using the find command to avoid unexpected results when deleting or modifying files, and highlights how to use the max depth option to only search for files in the current directory, saving time and ensuring accuracy.', 'duration': 200.82, 'highlights': ["The find command is crucial for avoiding unexpected results when deleting or modifying files, as it allows a 'dry run' to preview results before taking action.", 'Setting a max depth of 1 in the find command limits the search to the current directory, ensuring that only the desired files are targeted.', 'Using the find command and max depth option can save time by allowing precise execution of commands on specific results, such as deleting all JPEG images in the current directory.', 'Using the find command can also be helpful for tasks like cleaning up specific file types, such as PYC files, in a project, providing a versatile and efficient file management tool.', 'Mastering commands like find can streamline file management tasks, offering a quicker alternative to writing complex scripts for similar actions.']}], 'duration': 331.731, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/KCVaNb_zOuw/pics/KCVaNb_zOuw721906.jpg', 'highlights': ['Demonstrates changing directory and file permissions using commands such as ls-la, find, and change mod, achieving 775 permissions for directories and 664 permissions for files, with successful outcomes demonstrated through returned results.', 'Using the find command to search for permissions of 775 within the website demo directory resulted in all directories getting the new permissions of 775.', 'Changing file permissions to 664 was achieved by finding the files and executing the command, resulting in all files underneath the website demo directory having the new permission levels of 664.', "The find command is crucial for avoiding unexpected results when deleting or modifying files, as it allows a 'dry run' to preview results before taking action.", 'Setting a max depth of 1 in the find command limits the search to the current directory, ensuring that only the desired files are targeted.', 'Using the find command and max depth option can save time by allowing precise execution of commands on specific results, such as deleting all JPEG images in the current directory.', 'Using the find command can also be helpful for tasks like cleaning up specific file types, such as PYC files, in a project, providing a versatile and efficient file management tool.', 'Mastering commands like find can streamline file management tasks, offering a quicker alternative to writing complex scripts for similar actions.']}], 'highlights': ['The find command allows users to quickly and easily scan through the file system to find files and directories that meet a certain criteria.', "Filtering options such as finding only directories (type D) or only files (type F) can be used with the 'find' command, providing precise control over the search results.", "The find command allows searching for files based on specific names, including using wildcards to match partial file names and enabling case-insensitive searches with the 'iname' option.", "Using wildcards to find files with specific extensions, such as finding all Python files below the current directory with the command 'star.py', demonstrating the functionality of wildcards in file searches.", 'The find command can be used to search for files based on access time, file size, empty files, and permissions, providing specific commands and results, such as finding files over a certain size and files that are empty.', 'Using the -mtime option to find files modified a certain number of days ago, illustrating the use of time duration options for searching files modified in days.', 'The chapter showcases the capability of the find command to execute actions on search results, such as changing the owner of files and directories within a folder using the exec option and specific commands like chown.', 'Demonstrates changing directory and file permissions using commands such as ls-la, find, and change mod, achieving 775 permissions for directories and 664 permissions for files, with successful outcomes demonstrated through returned results.', "The find command is crucial for avoiding unexpected results when deleting or modifying files, as it allows a 'dry run' to preview results before taking action.", 'Setting a max depth of 1 in the find command limits the search to the current directory, ensuring that only the desired files are targeted.', 'Using the find command and max depth option can save time by allowing precise execution of commands on specific results, such as deleting all JPEG images in the current directory.', 'Using the find command can also be helpful for tasks like cleaning up specific file types, such as PYC files, in a project, providing a versatile and efficient file management tool.', 'Mastering commands like find can streamline file management tasks, offering a quicker alternative to writing complex scripts for similar actions.']}