How can I find a file/directory that could be anywhere on linux command line? [closed]

Answer 1

If need to find nested in some dirs:

find / -type f -wholename "*dirname/filename"

Or connected dirs:

find / -type d -wholename "*foo/bar"

Answer 2

I hope this comment will help you to find out your local & server file path using terminal

 find "$(cd ..; pwd)" -name "filename"

Or just you want to see your Current location then run

 pwd "filename"

Answer 3

To get rid of permission errors (and such), you can redirect stderr to nowhere

find / -name "something" 2>/dev/null

Answer 4

Below example will help to find the specific folder in the current directory. This example only search current direct and it'll search sub directory available in the current directory

#!/bin/bash

result=$(ls -d operational)

echo $result

test="operational"

if [ "$result" == "$test" ] 
then 
   echo "TRUE"
else
   echo "FALSE"
fi

Answer 5

If it is a command file you are looking for, the fastest and most accurate way is with

which "commandname"

That will show you the actual file being used for the command, even if you have many files with the same name on the system.

Answer 6

The find command will take long time, the fastest way to search for file is using locate command, which looks for file names (and path) in a indexed database (updated by command updatedb).

The result will appear immediately with a simple command:

locate {file-name-or-path}

If the command is not found, you need to install mlocate package and run updatedb command first to prepare the search database for the first time.

More detail here: https://medium.com/@thucnc/the-fastest-way-to-find-files-by-filename-mlocate-locate-commands-55bf40b297ab