Hello, I need to find file in Linux. Grep is looking for a pattern inside the file. I don't need any pattern, I just need to find file with a certain name. Can anybody help? Thanks, Kiryl.

there are a few different ways, i perfer "locate" "locate filename" (you can use wildcards) also, try find, whereis if it is a new file just put on, use "updatedb" to update the file database (this will take a few minutes)

another option: 'find / -name filename' tells find to search recursively for filename. hth.

find has many advanced options, but to do what you want, do find /path/to/search -name filename If your not root, depending on where you search (like /), you may want to tack a 2> /dev/null on the end so you don't see "Permission denied" messages. Look in the find man page for other uses.

one i like and is very powerful is in the root dir find | grep {file name/portion of name} j

find /path/to/search -name filename is good, but ownly shows that there's a file with this name find /path/to/search -name filename -print -print shows the path of the file less | find /path/to/search -name filename -print gives you the possibility to scroll if there are more results your screen can show

thanks, everybody