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Old 03-26-2008
how to find the path of a file?
Hi all,

Is there any way to find the the path of a file?
I mean executable files and just anyother file we can think of?

i know of one cmd called which
$which mount
/usr/bin/mount

this is fine, but "mount" is a cmd not a file that can be searched
eg: say i have created a text file called "myfile"
i dont know the path to it, how do i find it?

Thanks
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Old 03-26-2008
refer man find....

Code:
find / -name "filename" 2>/dev/null

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Old 03-26-2008
man find or take a look here: https://www.unix.com/answers-frequent...d-command.html
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Old 03-26-2008
And if you have locate, your disk will already be indexed every night, so no need to run a heavy-duty on-line find command at all (unless it's a file you created recently).
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