How do AWK, grep and Find commands differ from each other, sice all these three command looks for a specific phrase in text file or directory?

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I just want to know how AWK, grep and find command differ from each other in terms of functionalities and which command to use when?

Warning - tongue in cheek remark to follow... use `grep` if you just want to find something, use `awk` if you then want to do something with it, and use `sed` if you like arcane, illegible commands ;-) — Mark Setchell, May 29 '17 at 10:23

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 29 '17 at 09:05

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The command would be

find . -type d -name '*word*'

answered May 29 '17 at 09:05

arboreal84

Thanks, @arboreal84. That definitely worked. In order to delete the listed directories I used `find . -type d -name '*word*'| xargs -I% rm -rf %`. – deepayan das May 29 '17 at 09:10

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