Find files and directories
Submitted by Des on Wed, 10/02/2013 - 12:14
To find a file named hostname ignoring case and searching from /
find / -iname hostname
To find all files named zulu and redirect the output into a file named zulufind ignoring errors
find / -name Zulu>zulufind 2>/dev/null
To find a file from the current directory
find . -name passwd
To ignore errors add 2>/dev/null to the end where 2 means stderror and >/dev/null redirects to a null device (basically dumps the errors to nowhere)
find / -name passwd 2>/dev/null