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Find all PDFs in a folder

#shell #bash #zsh

A quick way to find all PDFs in a folder and dump the list into a text file on the desktop:

find . -type f -iname "*.pdf" > ~/Desktop/pdf-list.txt
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This should work to find any files of a specific type.

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