How can I find a specific file from a Linux terminal

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I am trying to find where index html is located on my linux server  and was wondering if there was a command to do that  Very new to linux and appreciate any help I can get

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Find from root path find   -name  index html   Find from current path find   -name  index html

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The below line of code would do it for you   find   -name index html  However  on most Linux servers  your files will be located in  var www or in your user directory folder  home  user  depending on how you have it set up  If you re using a control panel  most likely it ll be under your user folder

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find  the path you want to find -name index html

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Solution  Use unix command find     The find utility recursively descends the directory tree for each path   listed  evaluating an expression  composed of the  primaries  and    operands   in terms of   each file in the tree     You can make the find action be more efficient and smart by controlling it with regular expressions queries  file types  size thresholds  depths dimensions in subtree  groups  ownership  timestamps   modification creation date and more  In addition you can use operators and combine find requests such as or not and etc      The Traditional Formula would be    find  lt path gt  -flag  lt valueOfFlag gt    Easy Examples  1 Find by Name - Find all package json from my current location subtree hierarchy   find   -name  package json    2 Find by Name and Type - find all node modules directories from ALL file system  starting from root hierarchy    sudo find   -name  node modules  -type d   Complex Examples   More Useful examples which can demonstrate the power of flag options and operators   3 Regex and File Type - Find all javascript controllers variation names  using regex  javascript Files only in my app location    find  user dev app -name   contoller-   js  -type f   -type f means file -name related to regular expression to any variation of controller string and dash with  js at the end  4 Depth - Find all routes patterns directories in app directory no more than 3 dimensions   app          only and no more deeper   find app -name   route   -type d  -maxdepth 3   -type d means directory -name related to regular expression to any variation of route string -maxdepth making the finder focusing on 3 subtree depth and no more  lt yourSearchlocation gt  depth1 depth2 depth3   5 File Size   Ownership and OR Operator - Find all files with names  sample  or  test  under ownership of root user that greater than 1 Mega and less than 5 Mega   find      -name  test  -or -name  sample      -user root -size  1M -size -5M   -size threshold representing the range between more than     and less than  -  -user representing the file owner -or operator filters query for both regex matches  6 Empty Files - find all empty directories in file system  find   -type d -empty   7 Time Access  Modification and creation of files - find all files that were created modified access in directory in 10 days    creation  c  find  test -name    groovy  -ctime -10d   modification  m  find  test -name    java  -mtime -10d   access  a  find  test -name    js  -atime -10d   8 Modification Size Filter - find all files that were modified exactly between a week ago to 3 weeks ago and less than 500kb and present their sizes as a list  find  test -name    java  -mtime -3w -mtime  1w -size -500k   xargs du -h

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In general  the best way to find any file in any arbitrary location is to start a terminal window and type in the classic Unix command  find    find   -name index html -print   Since the file you re looking for is the root file in the root directory of your web server  it s probably easier to find your web server s document root   For example  look under    var www    Or type   find  var www -name index html -print

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Try this  via a shell    update db locate index html   Or   find  var -iname  index html    Replace  var with your best guess as to the directory it is in but avoid starting from

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