find command on subdirectories
 

Believe the find command should search in all subdirectories but for some reason it doesn't on a box I'm working on. For example, if I have the following
find / -name test

It wouldn't find the file /etc/mydir/test, if I execute the command in /etc. Can someone please explain what I need to do to enable search also in the subdirectories recursively?

You have to be running the command as 'root' to be able to search through system directories.

To add to that, the find command by default searches recursively. I normally use the find command along with grep to find what I need to.

The find command you are using should list subdirectories.

If permissions prevent find reading subdirectories, it will give an error message.

Maybe find is not running /usr/bin/find; what is the output of which find?