AI engineering glossary · Command line Git

What is find?

find: A command that walks through folders and lists files matching conditions such as name, size, type or modification time, optionally running another command on each. It searches by file properties rather than by file contents.

Level: intermediateTopic: Command line Git

find: an example

find . -name '*.ipynb' -size +1M lists notebooks larger than one megabyte under the current folder.

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find is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.

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