Also, if you want to find files by name, I believe you want to use
either the -name or -iname flags with find... and generally, you want
to put the expression you're searching for in quotes.
e.g.
find path/to/search -name "*.jpg"
should print paths to all the .jpg files under path/to/search.
Changing -name to -iname will also return .JPG .Jpg, .JpG etc. Also,
it should be noted: while most commands require a double dash(--)
before long flags, Find requires a single dash.
You can also use
-type d
or
-type f
to return only directories and files respectively
and
-empty
will return directories with no content and files that are 0 bytes.
This is barely scratching the surface of the find command, but it will
hopefully be enough to get you started with using it.
Also, as I understand it, /etc/ is mostly where system-wide
configuration and templates for creating new user config directories
are stored. for executables, there's also /bin and /sbin, but I get
the impression those are more for core system utilities than anything
the user is likely to invoke directly.utilities
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