How To Find A File Using Unix's Find


Whenever I need to find text within a file, I use Ack. However, when I need to find where a particular file is and I know the name of the file, there is nothing better than using find. What the below command is doing is finding, in the current directory, by name, the file, deploy.yml.

find . -name deploy.yml

For information, check out man find. I’m still making a more conserted effort to read and more easily interpret Man pages.