At some point it may be helpful to have a BASH script dynamically determine the location of itself when executed from anywhere on the system. The following code will produce the canonicalized absolute pathname of the script, as well as the directory that it resides in. The script first determines if the the first argument [...]

The find command allows you to recursively search and locate files on your system based on specific criteria. You can search by name, owner, group, type, permissions, date, as well as many others. The find command uses the following format: find [search_path(s)] [search_criteria] The following is the most basic way to run the find command. [...]