How to search for a file in the CentOS command line

Question

I am using CentOS minimal version and I am trying to locate a file  but I have no idea how to search all of the server for the file  I am sure there is a command out there to do it  can anyone help me

User · Accepted Answer

Try this command   find   -name file look

User · Answer

CentOS is Linux  so as in just about all other Unix Linux systems  you have the find command  To search for files within the current directory   find -name  filename    You can also have wildcards inside the quotes  and not just a strict filename  You can also explicitly specify a directory to start searching from as the first argument to find   find   -name  filename    will look for  filename  or all the files that match the regex expression in between the quotes  starting from the root directory  You can also use single quotes instead of double quotes  but in most cases you don t need either one  so the above commands will work without any quotes as well  Also  for example  if you re searching for java files and you know they are somewhere in your  home username  do   find  home username -name   java   There are many more options to the find command and you should do a   man find   to learn more about it   One more thing  if you start searching from   and are not root or are not sudo running the command  you might get warnings that you don t have permission to read certain directories  To ignore remove those  do   find   -name  filename  2 gt  dev null   That just redirects the stderr to  dev null

[linux] How to search for a file in the CentOS command line

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