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Finding files/folders via cli on Linux

When doing admin tasks there will come a time that you will need to search something via command line. Here is how you do it.

#Install tree

You could also use locate or find commands but at least for me, tree command works a lot better. Tree command will display files and folders in a nicely structured view. We can then easily grep from treeĀ“s output and find our files or folders.

#Let’s install it.
sudo apt-get install tree -y Continue reading