how to locate file in home directory
 

I simply want to find all files OR directories like "fi*" anywhere (recursively) in my /home directory (I downloaded firefox and want to find it).

I've tried all kinds of varations of locate, find and grep, all with various results.

- so what is the command, if I am in my home directory to say "find me all files/directories that start with fi*"

Thanks.

go to your home directory using the cd command. Then, issue the command

ls -R . fi*

Hi,

Find could do that:

find /home/yourloginname -name "fi*" -print

Hope this is what you want.

yes, that find syntax is exactly what I was looking for:

find -name fi*

works great, thanks!