When you’re on a mac/bsd/*nix system you will likely have access to the “find” command which is extremely useful in helping you to “find” a file. This can be particularly handy in situations where you aren’t familiar with the layout of directories on a system and need to find a config file or whatever.
- This command will search the ENTIRE filesystem for the filename you specify, you will almost certainly need to run this with sudo as there are a lot of directories which you do not have permissions to normally:
find / -name hard_to_find_file.txt - This is the same as the above, except it searches the directory you are currently executing from:
find . -name hard_to_find_file.txt - This one just searches your user’s home directory:
find ~ -name hard_to_find_file.txt - You can also search for just files of a certain extension:
find ~ -name *.wav - This command will return any file with the string “key” in it’s filename:
find / -name key
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