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Files & search

Finding files, measuring disk use, and searching inside them.

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all 004 stat 001 permissions 001 chmod 001 metadata 001 file 001 magic-bytes 001 mime 001 debugging 001 find 001 prune 001 search 001 du 001 disk 001 sorting 001

040See a file's permissions as the number chmod expectsstat -c '%04a %A %U:%G %n' *2026-10-093 min 027Identify a file by what is inside it, not what it is calledfile *2026-09-223 min 018Search a project without walking into node_modulesfind . \( -name node_modules -o -name .git \) -prune -o -type f -name '*.ts' -print2026-09-084 min 006Find out what is actually eating your diskdu -h -d1 . | sort -hr | head -102026-08-214 min

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