How to Find Directory of Some Command

How to find directory of some command?

If you're using Bash or zsh, use this:

type -a lshw

This will show whether the target is a builtin, a function, an alias or an external executable. If the latter, it will show each place it appears in your PATH.

bash$ type -a lshw
lshw is /usr/bin/lshw
bash$ type -a ls
ls is aliased to `ls --color=auto'
ls is /bin/ls
bash$ zsh
zsh% type -a which
which is a shell builtin
which is /usr/bin/which

In Bash, for functions type -a will also display the function definition. You can use declare -f functionname to do the same thing (you have to use that for zsh, since type -a doesn't).

How can I find a file/directory that could be anywhere on linux command line?

"Unfortunately this seems to only check the current directory, not the entire folder". Presumably you mean it doesn't look in subdirectories. To fix this, use find -name "filename"

If the file in question is not in the current working directory, you can search your entire machine via

find / -name "filename"

This also works with stuff like find / -name "*.pdf", etc. Sometimes I like to pipe that into a grep statement as well (since, on my machine at least, it highlights the results), so I end up with something like

find / -name "*star*wars*" | grep star

Doing this or a similar method just helps me instantly find the filename and recognize if it is in fact the file I am looking for.

Find file in directory from command line

find /root/directory/to/search -name 'filename.*'
# Directory is optional (defaults to cwd)

Standard UNIX globbing is supported. See man find for more information.

If you're using Vim, you can use:

:e **/filename.cpp

Or :tabn or any Vim command which accepts a filename.

how to search for a directory from the terminal in ubuntu

you can search for directory by using find with flag -name

you should use

find /user -name "sdk" -type d

meaning find directories named sdk in or below the directory /user

or if you want to be case-insensitive

find /user -iname "sdk" -type d

Unix shell script find out which directory the script file resides?

In Bash, you should get what you need like this:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

BASEDIR=$(dirname "$0")
echo "$BASEDIR"

How to get full path of a file?

Use readlink:

readlink -f file.txt

Shell command to find files in a directory pattern

Shell Script:

find /home/*/public_html/images -iname "*php" -exec echo {} \;

You can then change the -exec command to do whatever actions you want to the returned files. In this case, we echo them, but you could easily perform other actions as well.

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