How do I search my Linux / UNIX server for a file?
Posted by Vivek Gite
[Last updated: May 1, 2008]
Q. How do I search Linux box for a file?
A. You need to use find command, which search for files in a directory hierarchy (file system) and prints information about the files it found. It is run like as follows:
find {dir-name} -name {file-name}
Find command examples
Find out file called foo.txt:
# find / -name foo.txt
Find out httpd.log file:
# find / -type f -name httpd.log
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April 15th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Make it more easy. i did not understan nothing. can you tell people simply things? I still doo not know who you areß what are you dooing? nothing is that what you want? think abaut. Young People may know this, but what abaut the 50-60 generation.