that didnt work. let me try and re-explain what i need to do. i have an images folder that has sub folders inside it with over 300000 images. i need the ability to search inside that folder for specfic things like roses, pokemon, racing ect.
Now imagine , for your case that my 'findtest' directory is your 'images' folder.
This folder, has three sub folders (images01,images02,images03). I believe from the list I've given above, it is fairly obvious where each file is located.
Now from the 'prompt' , I'll change into my images folder (mine is called,as i've said 'findtest', using the cd command. Then I'll execute the find command. I'll play with grep as well to see if the output that is returned makes it easier for you.
So, scenario is I'm in my home folder and I'm begining....
This means that from where I am (/export/home/michnmi/Documents/Scripts/Unix.comForum/findtest) the 'relative' location of the files that contain the word pokemon in their filename is this one:
ty for being patient with me. i am enclosing what the folders look like say i am looking for apple i need it to search all of images folder because they may be in other subfolders other than ap.
We know you want to search in all folders inside something. That's what find does. It searches and shows everything inside the folder you wanted. find . by itself would print every directory and file it finds, starting in the current directory and working up. By adding more restrictions to find, you narrow down what it finds into what you want.
I think just -name by itself may have been too restrictive -- I doubt you have any files named just 'name'. -name 'name' wouldn't even find 'name.jpg'.
How about find /path/to/images -iname '*rose*', that should find more. -iname is better than -name because it's case insensitive. Linux filenames are case sensitive, unlike Windows ones.
Last edited by Corona688; 06-03-2011 at 04:18 PM..
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