Hii

I need to find the location of a file . i know the beginning of the name

but i dont know the directory its saved in


how can i find the location ???


Please help

find / -type f -name "beginning*"

where should i run this command ??? Home directory ????

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this is the output i am getting and it gets hanged... Please help!!!



find: cannot open /home/hupadhya
find: cannot open /home/deepjain/.ssh
find: cannot open /home/jkumar
find: cannot open /home/nedumtha
find: cannot open /home/ypuranik
find: cannot open /home/kvinoths
find: cannot open /home/chadesai
find: cannot open /opt/medusa
find: cannot open /opt/openssh/empty

If you're located in your home directory, and the file is located within a sub directory of your home directory, then substitute the '/' with '.'

The "find" is probably not hung. It will take time to search from root down. The error messages "find: cannot open" are because you are not logged in as "root" and do not have permission look at some directories. This is harmless because you could not have created a file in one of those directories. If you really don't know where you created the file, the find from root will find it eventually.

find // -type f -name "name_of_lost_file*" -print