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Old 10-10-2007
find particular directory

Hi,

i know only directory name

I want to find location of tat directory(full path)

is there any option to find directory
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Old 10-10-2007
Code:
find / -type d -name "dir_name" 2> /dev/null

If there are multiple directories with same name, all of them will show up.
 
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