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PeanutsMonkey
Asked: 2011-07-23 11:14:05 +0800 CST

When using find -name in Linux what does it refer to?

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The man page states that find -name refers to base of file name however I don't follow what that means exactly.

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    The "base of the filename" is the last part of the file path: The same thing you would get if you ran the basename(1) command. Typically this is everything after the last /.
    This is as opposed to the dirname - the directory portion, or everything up to (but not including) the last /.
    Together these make up the pathname of the file.

    See the man page for basename (and dirname) for more details.

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  2. -name is the string you are searching for. eg:

    # find /etc/ -name passwd
/etc/pam.d/passwd
/etc/passwd

     

    # find /usr/bin -name firefox
/usr/bin/firefox
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