find . -iname \*DVD\*
the . tells the find command to search starting at this point in your directory tree. ( by default you'll be in your home folder, so you should navigate to where you want your search to start from )
-iname flag means case insensitive
the \* is a wildcard option for text before and/or after your text, in my example above i'm saying find any file that has DVD in the title with words either before or after DVD.
the \ itself is an escape character, which tells the terminal that the character directly after the \ should be treated literally and not as a parameter that needs processing. a classic example of this in linux is that a blank space is typically ignored if you were trying to change your directory to a folder name 'folder name'. in this scenario you need to cd into folder\ name which tells linux that the space you put after the \ should be taken literally as 'space'. In the case of my find command above the \* is telling the shell to process the * literally as a wildcard.
-iname flag means case insensitive
the \* is a wildcard option for text before and/or after your text, in my example above i'm saying find any file that has DVD in the title with words either before or after DVD.
the \ itself is an escape character, which tells the terminal that the character directly after the \ should be treated literally and not as a parameter that needs processing. a classic example of this in linux is that a blank space is typically ignored if you were trying to change your directory to a folder name 'folder name'. in this scenario you need to cd into folder\ name which tells linux that the space you put after the \ should be taken literally as 'space'. In the case of my find command above the \* is telling the shell to process the * literally as a wildcard.
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