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Often I have a file name and it's partial path, e.g. "content/docs/file.xml".

Is there a simple way to search for that file, without manually cutting into parts its name to provide directory name and file name separately?

It'd be great iffindworked in that way, so I could runfind content/docs/file.xml, but unfortunately it doesn't.

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    You could try adding a * wildcard at the beginning.find -path *content/docs/file.xmlworked for me.–BobMar 13 '12 at 8:58
  • thanks, @Bob, it's really worked for me. Btw, interesting, that if I'm adding a slash after an asterisk: "find -path */content/docs/file.xml", it doesn't work. Thanks a lot anyway.–user69817Mar 13 '12 at 9:06
  • also, @Bob, please make it as an answer and I'll mark it as a correct.–user69817Mar 13 '12 at 9:08
  • The reason the slash after asterisk didn't work is probably because the asterisk should have been escaped, see the edit to my answer.–BobMar 13 '12 at 10:55

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Pass in a*wildcard to indicate a match foranything. You also need to escape the*s, e.g.:

find . -path \*content/docs/file.xml

or enclose the pattern in quotes, e.g.:

find . -path "*content/docs/file.xml"

As the man page describes it:

$ find . -name *.c -print

find: paths must precede expression

This happens because *.c has been expanded by the shell resulting in find actually receiving a command line like this:

find . -name bigram.c code.c frcode.c locate.c -print

That command is of course not going to work. Instead of doing things this way, you should enclose the pattern in quotes or escape the wild‐ card:

$ find . -name \*.c -print

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find has a -wholename option toofind $top_dir -wholename *string*

find /usr -wholename *in/abiw*>/usr/bin/abiword
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  • I don't know the full path, only partial, so "-wholename" won't work.–user69817Mar 13 '12 at 9:02
  • the flag is misleading, see my example... it just lets you extend the string into a directory if you know it–technosaurusMar 13 '12 at 9:38
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find . -type f | grep "content/docs/file.xml"

or just

locate content/docs/file.xml
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  • locate is an interesting option, but it searches the whole disk, I'd like to have an ability to specify the base search directory or at least to specify using param, that search should be made from this directory (like your first option does), not from the root.–user69817Mar 13 '12 at 8:56
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    @user69817 - on the contrary, locate doesn't search the disk, it interrogates a locate database, which typically gets populated via cron once a day.–tinkAug 9 at 21:12
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For example searching files in a location using asterisk/wildcard (*) as:dir=“/apps/*/instance01/"you could use find${dir} -name “*.jks”.putting all the files in an array like this:

arr=(`find ${dir} -name “*.jks"`)

if you want to get files with other extensions use ‘or’ like this:

-name "*.keystore" -o -name "*.jks" -o -name “*.p12"because-nameonly accepts single string so use ‘or’.

Finally put everything in array like this:

arr=(`find ${dir} -name "*.keystore" -o -name "*.jks" -o -name "*.p12"`)

if you have full paths not the partial paths its much easier to put them in arrays like this:

arr=(“/Users/ajay/Documents/keystore_and_p12files/"*.{keystore,p12,jks})
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来自  https://superuser.com/questions/400078/how-can-i-search-a-file-by-its-name-and-partial-path