[SOLVED] The find command not actually finding some files.

bluesword1969 · 09-28-2010, 10:24 AM

SOLVED: Typo.

Hello all.

I'm using the find command to try and find zip files, and it is missing an entire directory full of them.

No strange permissions or anything set.

Any sanity checks I could do on the files themselves?

Any other ideas also welcome.

Thanks!

druuna · 09-28-2010, 10:29 AM

Hi,

What did the command look like?

This looks for files, starting from the root directory, ending in zip (case insensitive).
find / -type f -iname "*zip"

Hope this helps.

healyma · 09-28-2010, 10:30 AM

Hi,

I came across something similar where the wildcards were not picking out certain files. From what I can remember, the files in question were duplicate copies of downloaded files (e.g. myfile.ext was listed, but myfile (1).ext was not - for my*.ext).

Not sure if this is of any relevance to your issue

Mark

bluesword1969 · 09-28-2010, 10:32 AM

See above.

healyma · 09-28-2010, 10:33 AM

Spotted that - think I posted as you were updating the thread status.

Cheers

basheer · 09-28-2010, 10:34 AM

Hi,
Why don't you just updatedb and locate zip files?

Oops I just saw Druuna's post.