bash-find

Resources:

• GeeksforGeeks

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Syntax:

 
find [where to start searching from]
 [expression determines what to find] [-options] [what to find]
 
e.g 
find "$MD_DIRECTORY" -name '*.md' -exec echo "File is: {}" \;

• By default, find searches recursively to include sub-directories and files too.

Cheatsheet:

Description	Syntax
Search for all files of a pattern	find ./GFG -name *.txt
Placeholder for “current file path of found object” → {}	find "$MD_DIRECTORY" -name '*.md' -exec echo "File is: {}" \;
To run a command after finding a file, use -exec	find [location] -exec \;
To initiate a loop on a $pattern file, without splitting the lines into fields	while IFS= read -r pattern; do { code here }

• To run defined functions with find -exec, you need to specify the shell (since only shell can run shell scripts)).