Are you trying to understand how to search for a file in Linux? Sometimes the command isn’t easy to remember. Try these tips to help you find the file.
Search by filename
find / -name 'filename.txt'
The / indicates to start at the root directory. The -name tag says look for the filename. The ‘filename.txt’ is the filename you’re looking for.
Search your current directory and all sub-directories
find -name homework.txt
Search for files ending in .txt in your current directory
find -name *.txt
Find files that are over 5MB in size
find / -size +5000k
Get rid of all the ‘permission denied’ errors when doing a find
If the command returns an error we can send that output to nowhere by doing the following:
find / -name 'something.txt' 2>/dev/null
This will send all errors to the bit bucket and only display successful results.
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