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find-files

Instructions

"start finding ..."

Create a file find-files.sh, which will look for and show, in the current directory and its sub-folders:

everything that starts with an a or, all the files ending with a z or,

• You can use this for testing: https://assets.01-edu.org/devops-branch/find-files-example.zip

• What to use : find

• The output should be exactly like the example bellow but with the expected name

$pwd
<..>/find-files-example
$./find-files.sh
./folder2/zzzz
./folder3/asd
./folder3/sub-folder4/abc
./folder3/sub-folder4/a_correct
./folder3/sub-folder4/aefg
./folder3/asd 2
./folder3/ahmed
./folder1/aolder_lol
$

Hints

find command is used to search and locate the list of files and directories based on conditions you specify for files that match the arguments:

$find ~/
<all files and folders in the user home>
$find ~/ \( -type f \)
<all files in the user home>
$

May you will need to use pipe (|) and &&.

You have to use Man or Google to know more about commands flags, in order to solve this exercice! Google and Man will be your friends!