I have blogged before that knowledge of command-line tools is essential to take the next step in programming productivity. I think it would be useful to provide simple tutorials for these powerful tools, starting with find. I hope you agree, and would appreciate your feedback via the contact page or in the comments.

Tutorial

If you’re on Windows, I would recommend installing Cygwin to bring the power of a real shell to your OS. Let us start with a simple example and build upon it:

[sourcecode language="bash"]
find . -name “*.css”
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