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Unix search commands
Problem:
Searching Files and DirectoriesSolution:
find / -name [filename] -print (search the whole server for a file)find . -name [filename] -print (search for a file starting with the current directory)
find / -name [directoryname] - type d -print (search the whole server for a direcory)
grep [text] [filename] (search for text within a file)
sed s/[oldtext]/[newtext]/g [filename] (searches file and replaces all occurances of [oldtext]
with [newtext]
