Coursera-DE-C2-search-commands

Search Commands Lab

Goal: Learn to search from the Bash prompt

Learn to use Bash to search the filesystem

Part 1: Search with find

1. Search the filesystem for CSV files: find -name "*.csv"
2. What did you find?
3. Search the filesystem for .txt files: find -name "*.txt"
4. What did you find?

Part 2: Search with find, xargs and grep

1. Use the following command to find text inside the searched files: find -name "*.txt" | xargs grep Apple
2. What did you find out?
3. Run the following command: grep -R Banana .
4. What did you find out?
5. What are the pros and cons of the first approach and the second approach?