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Re: Find a File by Name in UNIX, Solaris, or Linux

Rani Sahoo — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 04:27:05 -0000

I can use locate filename to get the file with path.

Re: Find a File by Name in UNIX, Solaris, or Linux

Goldcd — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:31:10 -0000

Try
find / -name filename.txt -print 2>/dev/null

Re: Find a File by Name in UNIX, Solaris, or Linux

Srikantakumar — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:03:05 -0000

when I am excuting the below command, getting the file name with ./ prefix before file name which i don't want (like test2 only not ./test2). any suggestion....

$ find -name "test*" -type f -print
./test2
./test3
./test1

Re: Find a File by Name in UNIX, Solaris, or Linux

Jesse F. — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:09:04 -0000

His problem is is that he doesn't have permissions to view a lot of the files 'find' uses. Here's a few options:
If you don't have root permission, then you can supress error messages like so: 'find -ignore_readdir_race /parent/path/here -name file_name.txt'
Or if you can get permission, then: 'sudo find /parent/path/here -name file_name.txt'

yay!

Re: Find a File by Name in UNIX, Solaris, or Linux

venkata sudheer — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:17:50 -0000

try this # find <folder path=""> -name <filename> -print

Re: Find a File by Name in UNIX, Solaris, or Linux

Quinn McHenry — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:30:32 -0000

Yeah, totally. Normal output goes to "standard output" which can be redirected with normal measures. It's actually a nice thing that those messages are sent to "standard error" so you can redirect those but keep the more interesting responses.

find / -name something 2> /dev/null

Re: Find a File by Name in UNIX, Solaris, or Linux

snarfel — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:22:45 -0000

so, i get a bunch of "Permission Denied" notices for directories that my current user account can't access. is there a way to suppress these?