Currently i am using the below find command to find the cert8.db file
find / -type f -path ‘.mozilla/*’ -name “cert8.db”
The above command is trying to search the file everywhere.
I would like to scan the file only under root and user profiles(Unknown, unknown1 etc).
most common location for this file is:
in root: /root/.mozilla/firefox/i636e2gs.default/cert8.db
profile unknown: /home/unknown/.mozilla/firefox/bz5xry7t.default-beta/cert9.db
profile unknown1: /home/unknown1/.mozilla/firefox/bz5xry7t.default-beta/cert9.db
Note: I am not sure, this could be the Mozilla’s default initialization location.
Thanks,
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Answer
find expects zero, one, or more paths where to look for files and apply its expressions. Replace (/ = file system root) with all locations you want to be searched:
find /root /home -type f -path '.mozilla/*' -name 'cert8.db'
You might even limit the search space further by moving the .mozilla part into the list of starting points if it is a reasonable assumption that the .mozilla directory is always a direct child of the root folder or the home directories (making your shell do the work instead of find):
find /root/.mozilla/firefox /home/*/.mozilla/firefox -type f -name 'cert8.db'