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This might be a really stupid question but I really can't get it to work
I am trying to use the command line command file to find a file and I just can't seem to get it to work right. So I will give an example of what I want to do.
Lets say i know the file admin.txt is somewhere in the path /home/jello/
Now it could be anywhere in that directory or in any sub directory under it so i tried just the command
find ./ admin.txt
But it seems to search all the directorys and all the files but comes up with nothing, it even does this when I try a file I know is there.
So does anyone have any ideas of how to work this find command
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