Homework Help Forum: Operating Systems

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 4:50pm.

How would you search the entire file system for a file named today.odt?

• Operating Systems - Anonymous, Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 5:04pm

  correction: This is in Linux.

  
  

• Operating Systems - MathMate, Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 5:07pm

  Try find / today.odt it will search all directories under root, including links. For more options, type man find to read about the command find on Linux (man for manual).

  
  

• Operating Systems - Anonymous, Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 5:11pm

  Would this also work: find / -name "today.odt " -print

  
  

• Operating Systems - MathMate, Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 5:29pm

  Yes it would. The quotes are used to delimit regular expressions, for example if you want to find all files ending with .h or .c, you would type in find / "*.[ch]" -print If you don't put any metacharacters for regular expressions, it will be interpreted as is.

  
  

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