How can I find a file directory that could be anywhere on linux command line

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Ideally  I would be able to use a program like   find  file or directory name    to report the paths with matching filenames directories  Unfortunately this seems to only check the current directory  not the entire folder   I ve also tried locate and which  but none find the file  even though I know its on the computer somewhere

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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

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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

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If need to find nested in some dirs   find   -type f -wholename   dirname filename    Or connected dirs   find   -type d -wholename   foo bar

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I hope this comment will help you to find out your local  amp  server file path using terminal    find    cd     pwd   -name  filename    Or just you want to see your Current location then run   pwd  filename

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Unfortunately this seems to only check the current directory  not the entire folder    Presumably you mean it doesn t look in subdirectories   To fix this  use find -name  filename   If the file in question is not in the current working directory  you can search your entire machine via   find   -name  filename    This also works with stuff like find   -name    pdf   etc   Sometimes I like to pipe that into a grep statement as well  since  on my machine at least  it highlights the results   so I end up with something like   find   -name   star wars     grep star   Doing this or a similar method just helps me instantly find the filename and recognize if it is in fact the file I am looking for

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To get rid of permission errors  and such   you can redirect stderr to nowhere  find   -name  something  2 gt  dev null

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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

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

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