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Hello,
Just a quick question as I have not been able to find the answer anywhere else. I would like to use the find command to find files starting from root directory. This has to be executed as root, my question is, what would I do to execute this as root? Sudo does not do that right? What command can I use to execute it as root? If it is sudo, why is it not finding the file? I know it is in the downloads directory in my home directory, which should be found with sudo find / 'filename' right?
What are you planning?
Should work...Code:sudo find / -name "filename" -print
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Great thanks guys, just wasn't sure it was the sudo command that was keeping it from working...thanks! I read the man pages, good idea!
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A bit more friendly than the man pages:Originally Posted by Cthulu2156
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/find
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