Searching for Folder or File from CLI

[Daniel Cornel]

Hi guys,

Im looking for tips on searching for a file from within the command line interface.  We do not know the path or depth, however we have the spelling of the file and folder it is in.  I have tried using find, but am not able to get it to search subdirectories for results.  Any advice or any other commands to try? I have also used the search option from within file explorer with no results to anything other that whats in the immediate directory.

[Jerry Uanino]

cd /

find . |grep -i whatever

or 

find . -name ".*filename.*"

or variation of such.

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Daniel Cornel <aqua...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi guys,

Im looking for tips on searching for a file from within the command line interface.  We do not know the path or depth, however we have the spelling of the file and folder it is in.  I have tried using find, but am not able to get it to search subdirectories for results.  Any advice or any other commands to try? I have also used the search option from within file explorer with no results to anything other that whats in the immediate directory.

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[Jerry Uanino]

cd /ifs instead of / actually is probably what you want.

If your filesystem is big this could take forever though.

[Daniel Cornel]

Thank you! I used "find . | grep -I foldername" and will let it run. 

[Jerry Uanino]

thats grep -i as in india, not l as in lima. lower case, (it matters).

[Daniel Cornel]

it was lower case, but I believe it was capitalized automagicallly since I cut and pasted it from your text and spellcheck got it. I appreciate the follow up to be sure I was aware of the wrong flag though :)