Finding files in linux
find / -name " filename " Find the file called "filename" on your filesystem starting the search from the root directory "/". The "filename" may contain wildcards (*,?). The find command is very powerful. It has many options that will let you search for files in a variety of ways e.g., by date, size, permissions, owner, .... Yet some search queries can take you more than a minute to compose. See info find . Here are some more complex examples for using find to accomplish some useful tasks.