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James Newton
Asked: 2017-11-04 03:02:03 +0800 CST

Find a file with a given name or type in directories with a given name

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I want to find all PHP scripts that are inside a directory named web. In particular, I'm interested in any files named index.php in any of these directories.

I know that I can use sudo find / -type d -name "web" to list all the directories, and then I can use sudo find <directory path> -type f -name "*.php" for each of the output paths, to see if it contains a PHP script.

But is there a way to do this in one line and two nested find commands: one find command used to get the paths to the web directories, and the second to use each of those directories in turn as the root for finding a file whose name matches the pattern *.php?

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You don't need to call find twice if you use the -path option instead of -name:

    find / -type f -path "*/web/*.php"

    Specifically for every file index.php located under a directory named web:

    find / -type f -path "*/web/*index.php"
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  2. This command should achieve that:

    find / -type d -name "web" -exec find {}/  -type f -name "*.php" \;

    Tested on this tree:

    Documents/askubuntu/web
├── index.php
├── kate
│   ├── jate
│   │   └── jate.php
│   └── kate.php
├── koko
│   └── read.php
└── web2
    └── index.php

    Result:

    ./Documents/askubuntu/web/koko/read.php
./Documents/askubuntu/web/kate/kate.php
./Documents/askubuntu/web/kate/jate/jate.php
./Documents/askubuntu/web/index.php
./Documents/askubuntu/web/web2/index.php
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