Linux find command

The basic syntax of find command looks like this:

$ find location comparison-criteria search-term

Using the wildcards:

oracle@linux:~> find ./product -name '*.ora'
./product/11gR1/db/network/admin/sqlnet.ora
./product/11gR1/db/network/admin/tnsnames.ora
./product/11gR1/db/network/admin/samples/sqlnet.ora
./product/11gR1/db/network/admin/samples/tnsnames.ora
./product/11gR1/db/network/admin/samples/listener.ora
./product/11gR1/db/network/admin/listener.ora
./product/11gR1/db/localhost_orcl/sysman/config/emkey.ora
./product/11gR1/db/localhost_orcl/sysman/config/server/repoconn.ora
./product/11gR1/db/srvm/admin/init.ora
./product/11gR1/db/hs/admin/initdg4odbc.ora
./product/11gR1/db/hs/admin/extproc.ora
./product/11gR1/db/rdbms/install/filemap.ora
./product/11gR1/db/rdbms/admin/externaljob.ora
./product/11gR1/db/mgw/admin/sample_mgw.ora
./product/11gR1/db/dbs/spfileorcl.ora
./product/11gR1/db/dbs/init.ora

Tring to search ‘/’ will search all the entire file system including mounted devices and network storage devices.