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If you need to find and replace the occurrence of a word, phrase, URL, or whatever, and it's in several documents, this can be a really tedious task. If you're running Mac OS X, Linux, or really any ...

The find command is not just useful for locating files, but also for doing things with the files once it finds them. You can find files based on numerous criteria — their names, their owners, their ...