I want to find in the system a file, and I know part name of it. How could I do that? I tried unsuccessfully the command:
find / "*partname*"
The problem is probably very easy however I cannot find a decent tutorial on searching files in linux. Please tell me what command solves my problem and if you know a good tutorial so that I can understand how to use various parameters for searching, post a link. Thank you so much.
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Answer
Do:
find / -type f -name '*partname*'
If you know for sure that the file is in the root filesystem, then you should probably use -xdev too, to stop find from traversing other filesystem’s directories:
find / -xdev -type f -name '*partname*'