Searching for JDK using find

mconstant · 11-20-2008, 09:39 AM

Hi. I'm having trouble getting the find command to return useful results while searching for JDK. I'm typing

find / -name "jdk*." -print

any suggestions?

TB0ne · 11-20-2008, 09:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mconstant

Hi. I'm having trouble getting the find command to return useful results while searching for JDK. I'm typing

find / -name "jdk*." -print

any suggestions?

Try leaving off the . in your search string.

rizwanrafique · 11-20-2008, 10:01 AM

I usually use something liek:

Code:

find / |grep -i jdk

mconstant · 11-20-2008, 10:06 AM

Also, I want to get rid of all the permission denied error messages that popup. Couldn't find a flag to supress errors in the find man page. Suggestions?

colucix · 11-20-2008, 10:07 AM

Or simply

Code:

locate jdk

colucix · 11-20-2008, 10:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mconstant

Also, I want to get rid of all the permission denied error messages that popup. Couldn't find a flag to supress errors in the find man page. Suggestions?

Either use the find command as root (if you can acquire root privileges) or redirect standard error to /dev/null

Code:

find blah blah blah 2> /dev/null