In Ubuntu 10.10 after opening any folder or disk drive when try to find any file by its extension name like as “*.exe” or “*.bin” etc then the system cannot find anything. So, how I can find these type of file of sub folder?
Find command is used in unix to locate the file/files on the system. To find a file we must know the syntax of the command.
Here it is
> find /path/of/the/file 'file_name.*'
For example if you want to find file 'product_list.txt' on the machine then
> find / 'product_list.txt'
But if you want to find executable files, there will be small change in the command
> find . -perm /u=x,g=x,o=x
The above command will find the executable file in the current directory, which are executable by user, by group or by others
Another way to do this is
> find . -executable
This command will work even better. It will find the executable file in the current directory
you can use find. for example if you want to search for *.exe in /usr
find /usr -name *.exe
