question about find command

hnhegde · #1 (**permalink**) 10-26-2006

I am not sure if this question has been answered earlier at the Unix Forums. I tried a search but could not find anything.
So here it goes...

I am looking for a log file under /home.

Code:

find /home dklog.log -print

This prints all the directories it traverses while looking for the file and in the end the search result is printed. An extract of the output is:

Code:

/home/f029778/AuditFlag
/home/f029778/AuditFlag/scripts
/home/f029778/AuditFlag/scripts/1.sh
/home/f029778/AuditFlag/scripts/2.sh
/home/f029778/AuditFlag/scripts/3.sh
/home/f029778/AuditFlag/scripts/4.sh
/home/f029778/AuditFlag/scripts/6.sh
/home/f029778/AuditFlag/scripts/7.sh
/home/f029778/AuditFlag/scripts/8.sh
/home/f029778/AuditFlag/scripts/GEA.sh
/home/f029778/AuditFlag/scripts/HEA1.sh
/home/f029778/AuditFlag/scripts/HEA2.sh
/home/f029778/AuditFlag/scripts/KEA.sh
/home/f029778/AuditFlag/scripts/KEA1.sh
/home/f029778/AuditFlag/scripts/SEA.sh
/home/f029778/AuditFlag/scripts/SEA4.sh
/home/f029778/AuditFlag/scripts/count.sh
/home/f029778/delme.sh
/home/f029778/file2.dat
/home/f029778/file1.dat
/home/f029778/tools
/home/f029778/tools/bin
/home/f029778/tools/bin/citadel_user_manager.sh
/home/f029778/tools/bin/dklog.log
/home/f029778/tools/dklog.log
/home/f029778/tools/lib
/home/f029778/tools/lib/citadel-tools.jar
/home/f029778/tools/lib/jconn2.jar
/home/f029778/tools/log
/home/f029778/tools/tp_groups.dat
/home/f029778/tools/tp_users.dat
dklog.log

Is there an option to just print the result, in this case and avoid the rest of the stuff?

hegemaro · #2 (**permalink**) 10-26-2006

You're close:

find /home -name dklog.log -print

If your /home directory structure is automounted, say from /export/home, you would want to use the latter as your path.

hnhegde · #3 (**permalink**) 10-26-2006

Thanks hegemaro. I appreciate your quick reply.

mayewil · #4 (**permalink**) 10-26-2006

Not sure if this will help but try

find / -name '<filename>' -print

Include the tick marks each side of filename. You should only get back the location(s) of file you search for. Observe the spacing between forward slash and -name

Bill

hnhegde · #5 (**permalink**) 10-26-2006

Hi Bill,

Thanks for the quick reply. I tried:
find / -name '<filename>' -print

This yields the same result set as:
find / -name <filename> -print

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