The Linux find command makes it easy to find files on your system – even if you don’t remember their names or exactly when you last updated them. Some of the options are a bit more challenging ...

You can, however, also strip off a file’s (or a directory’s) extension by adding the particular extension to the end of your basename command as shown in these examples: ...

In this how-to, we’ll look at various ways of using the find command to help us find files and directories across the Linux filesystem. Sometimes we misplace a file or directory and we can spend ...

Here are some basic ways to use the find command in the Linux Command Line interface, useful if this is your preferred method, or you don't have a distro with a searchable file application. 1 ...

You may find yourself in a situation where you remember the content of a file but not its name. Linux offers various commands to help you find files based on specific text strings within them. By ...

The file command can identify image file types by extracting data from the files themselves. $ file Emmy.jpg Emmy.jpg: JPEG image data, progressive, precision 8, 704x584, components 3 ...