To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost.
To find one or more files or directories, assuming that you know their approximate filenames, and optionally do something to them. Working example: find ./ -name "*.txt" This will find all the files ending in txt starting at the current directory and searching your entire filesystem. Working example: find /home/admin -type d -exec chown admin.users {} \; This will find all the directories (-type d) in the /home/admin directory structure (yes, it will recurse directories) and changes the ownership of those directories to admin, with group users.
Searches for a text string in a file or files.
Allows you to search through a given field's values in a data table looking for a partial or exact match to a value you provide. As in, find the first permit record with an Applicant Last Name value of Smith. The Find function includes a Find Next function that allows you to jump through a data file looking for all records that match the value you provided.
Part of a browser that allows a keyword search of a particular document being viewed. (Look for it under the Edit menu)
Command used in CatME (Arabic, CJK) and Passport to send a numeric, derived, or keyword search.
Button in Netscape Tool Button Bar at top. Searches for word(s) keyed in document in screen only. Useful to locate a term in a long document. Can be invoked by the keyboard command, Ctrl+F.
come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!"
get something or somebody for a specific purpose; "I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener"; "I got hold of these tools to fix our plumbing"; "The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter"
A useful feature of Windows 95 that will search any disk drive-on your PC or, of you are on a network, on any other PC on that network --- for a particular file.
Searches for text in the currently loaded page. In Netscape, this is a button on the browser. In Explorer, you need to click Edit/Find.
Allows you to locate specific types of data or specific records in a database by searching for criteria which you specify.
Tool in most browsers to search for word(s) keyed in document in screen only. Useful to locate a term in a long document. Can be invoked by the keyboard command, Ctrl+F.
FIND searches the CONTEXT vocabulary for the string at $addr, and returns whether it was found, and if so, whether it is an IMMEDIATE word. 0 means the word was not found. The original name address will be returned. If the word was found. A 1 or a -1 and the word's CFA is returned. 1 means the words is IMMEDIATE. INTERPRET uses this when compiling to decide whether to immediately execute the word it finds. -1 means the word is not IMMEDIATE. If the search is not successful, AND the user-variable SEARCH-CURRENT is non-zero, the search will also be performed in the CURRENT vocabulary. : SHOWDEF ( name -- , disassemble word if found ) BL WORD FIND 0= IF $TYPE ." could not be found!" CR QUIT THEN DISM ; SHOWDEF DUP Related Words: WORDS-LIKE FILE? FORGET
An operating system command that searches particular directories for files with specific attributes.
To search the dictionary for a definition name matching a given string.
A database feature used to search for records that match search criteria in certain fields.