Asked by Anonymous
How would you search the entire file system for a file named today.odt?
Answers
Answered by
Anonymous
correction: This is in Linux.
Answered by
MathMate
Try
find / today.odt
it will search all directories under root, including links.
For more options, type
man find
to read about the command find on Linux (man for manual).
find / today.odt
it will search all directories under root, including links.
For more options, type
man find
to read about the command find on Linux (man for manual).
Answered by
Anonymous
Would this also work: find / -name "today.odt " -print
Answered by
MathMate
Yes it would.
The quotes are used to delimit regular expressions, for example if you want to find all files ending with .h or .c, you would type in
find / "*.[ch]" -print
If you don't put any metacharacters for regular expressions, it will be interpreted as is.
The quotes are used to delimit regular expressions, for example if you want to find all files ending with .h or .c, you would type in
find / "*.[ch]" -print
If you don't put any metacharacters for regular expressions, it will be interpreted as is.
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