How to locate a path?

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Is it possible to locate a path in the file system like what can be done for file names? For example I want to find all paths in system that include 'foo/bar', which may have the following result:

/home/myname/test/foo/bar/hello
/var/www/site/foo/bar

AReddy · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-19T06:50:22.483

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If you are unable to find the file with the below command then try updatedb for updating db used by locate command.

locate -r foot/bar/

or

# locate  "/*/bar/avi"
/foot/bar/avi

find command can also do this

find / -path */foot/bar*

find / will search the whole system starting from /

edited Dec 19 '16 at 06:50

answered Jul 13 '16 at 05:59

AReddy

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locate "*/bar/avi" gave me the fastest and the most accurate result. – B Faley Jul 13 '16 at 07:45

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 13 '16 at 06:04

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using find command,

find . -ipath "*foo/bar*"

or if you prefer regex syntax then you can use,

find . -iregex ".*foo/bar.*"

answered Jul 13 '16 at 06:04

Rahul

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 13 '16 at 05:55

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Try :

ls -lR | sed -n 's/foo\/bar/p'

Possibly very long output, i d throw it directly in a file

ls -lR | sed -n 's/foo\/bar/p' >> outfile

answered Jul 13 '16 at 05:55

onlyf

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score -2 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 13 '16 at 06:01

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This should do what you want:

user@machine% find / -print0 | grep -FzZ 'foo/bar'

You'll get a lot of "permission denied" unless you run as root or are running it on your own home directory.

answered Jul 13 '16 at 06:01

Dave Spear

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You can also redirect errors with 2>/dev/null – Barmar Jul 13 '16 at 17:34

How to locate a path?

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