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Santi92
Asked: 2020-02-21 10:21:48 +0800 CST 2020-02-21 10:21:48 +0800 CST

How to find a file with find

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Hi, I'm trying to find a file with the name "hibernate.cfg.xml" with the command findand it can't find it, but I know it exists and in several projects under my home The command I'm executing is:

$ find /home/santi hibernate.cfg.xml

What would be the correct way to search for it?

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  1. Best Answer

    You can try to use for example:

    find /home/santi -iname hibernate.cfg.xml

    • -inameiname will ignore the case sensitive, you can use it in case you know the name of the file but don't remember if it was case sensitive: for example if the file was hiBerNate.cfg.xml, or hibernate.cfg.xmlusing this option it would find it regardless of case or lowercase.find /home/santi -iname hibernate.cfg.xml

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    • -namename will only find the file, if it is exactly the same as the one indicated, for example: if the file were hiBerNate.cfg.xml, using this option it will NOT find said file because it takes into account upper or lower case letters.find /home/santi -name hibernate.cfg.xml

    For more options you can look at these links:

    1. http://www.linuxtotal.com.mx/index.php?cont=info_admon_022
    2. http://www.comoinstalarlinux.com/linux-find-commands-with-examples/
    3. http://linux.die.net/man/1/find

    This question has several answers, which anyway, if it is not the same as your question, it may be useful at some point:

    Find all files containing a text string in Linux

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  2. To search all subdirectories use/

    $ find / -iname "hibernate.cfg.xml"

    To search in a specific folder, for example home/santi:

    $ find /home/santi -iname "hibernate.cfg.xml"
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  3. If you wanted to search from the current directory inwards, and suppose you wanted to extend the search to all files starting with "hibernate" you could do:

    find . name "hibernate*"
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  4. $ find /ruta/donde/buscar/ -type f -name hibernate.cfg.xml

    Find function arguments :

    • -type declares the type to search for:
      • f (files) for files.
      • d (directory) directories (folder).
    • -name specifies the name or pattern of the document you want to find. This command allows the use of wildcards (read wildcards ) for more information), but for this it is required to use single quotes (') or double quotes ("), example:
      • find ./ -name *something.xml // Would give an error
      • find ./ -name '*something.xml' // Would give the expected result

    If the type of file to search for is not specified, it might also print a folder named hibernate.cfg.xml in the result list .

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