find the specific file in unix server - AIX

dsdev_123 · #1 03-27-2008

hello

i need a help in finding a specific file where it is stored in the unix server. is there a way to find it.

Regards

Student37 · #2 03-27-2008

ensure you have the priviliges (if you superuser) you can start from root fs
"find . -name <filename> -print" -

lijojoseph · #3 03-27-2008

try this

find / -name {file_name} 2>/dev/null

hope it helps
Regards

itik · #4 03-28-2008

in the future, you might search for text in somewhere else file:

find . | xargs grep 'put the text here' 2> /dev/null

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