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I have a file /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home
I am trying to find if I have the *.jdk anywhere else on my hard drive. So I do a search command:
find . -name "*.jdk" But it doesn't find anything. Not even the one I know that I have. How come?
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For finding a specific file type, simply use the 'type:' command, followed by the file extension. For example, you can find . docx files by searching 'type: . docx'.
Without a doubt, grep is the best command to search a file (or files) for a specific text. By default, it returns all the lines of a file that contain a certain string. This behavior can be changed with the -l option, which instructs grep to only return the file names that contain the specified text.
find . only looks in your current directory. If you have permissions to look for files in other directories (root access) then you can use the following to find your file -
find / -type f -name "*.jdk" If you are getting tons of permission denied messages then you can suppress that by doing
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