Find Files in the terminal with Bash

 

There are 3 commands in Linux to find files.

whereis

which

find

whereis

returns binaries, source files, and manual pages.

get the location of the bash executable file and the manual (man) file

only get the location of the bash file

which

only returns executables or source files

get the location of the bash executable file

find

returns all the search results from a particular hierarchy

to get all the files with .md extension in the current working directory.

to get the file with the name file,txt in a different directory (in this case home directory)

in the below command only gives the exact file with name file.txt , if case sensitivity can be removed it will return all the files that have same name.

to get all the files with the type directory