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Old 02-21-2013
Find the location of particular file and directory
hi all,

i am new to UNIX environment.

i have a file and directory with same name, i don't know the location

I want to find location of that file and directory.

please suggest a solution.
Last edited by joeyg; 02-21-2013 at 10:47 AM..
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Old 02-21-2013
Hint: The "find" command
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Old 02-21-2013
thanks for ur quick reply.

i have tried and succeeded in finding file and directory in two different queries.

but i don't know how to find those two in single query.Smilie

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anybody please suggest me
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Old 02-21-2013
For that you would have to be more explicit:
The easiest being by showing us the 2 command you used, and say you the same result in one command line... Smilie
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Old 02-21-2013
Code:
find . -type d -name "siva"

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Code:
find . -name 'siva'

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Old 02-21-2013
I always thought your second code would give both... Is it not the case? So what OS are you using then?

What is the output of ?
Code:
 find .  -name 'siva' -exec ls -ld {} \;

 
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