Coursera-DE-C2-Lab4-Composing-File-Data-Solutions

Composing File and Data Solutions with Linux

Goal: Search the filesystem with the find command

Now that you have learned to search with the find command let's put this to use.

Part 1: Search with find

1. Search the /bin directory and count the number of file you find find /usr/bin | wc -l
2. Find the location of python versions on your system: find /usr/bin | grep python
3. How could you change the last command to find a specific version of Python?

Part 2: Search for file types

1. Search for all of the csv files in docs directory: find -name "*.csv"
2. How many did you find?
3. Can you search for files with the .txt extension? How many do you find?