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http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/

“The GNU Find Utilities” is one of those packages that’s installed everywhere. find is one of those programs everyone ends up using and ends up being horrified at.

  • aka GNU Find Utilities

See also:

  • grep – For searching the contents of files.
  • locate maintains a database.



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2015-05-10 update – I’ve been using some more complex stuff, which can be found around my shell-random/zsh github repository. See 3-interactive.sh and colours.sh


I’m pleased to announce that I’m the very first user to have ANSI colour in a zsh prompt.  Yep, the very first.  I must be, since there is no example to be found anywhere.  After a serious amount of searching and fist-shaking at vague documentation, I was able to hack it out myself.

My solution is still incomplete though.  Let’s walk through this nonsense..

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