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Searching Mac Through Terminal?
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Mar 15, 2026125505 viewsConfidence Score0%
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are there any commands to search your Mac using terminal? I tried usin grep to search but it seems somewhat unresponsive and nothing comes up. For example, I would type "grep Files" (A folder name) and it just prints a blank line and nothing happens.
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If you just want to find files with a certain name, use The man page can be found HERE or by typing at the terminal prompt. Basically, find will recursively look for a file meeting criteria you specify. The easiest example: That will search for a fi…
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