我怎样才能找到一个文件/目录，可以在 linux 命令行的任何地方？

理想情况下，我可以使用

find [file or directory name]

不幸的是，这似乎只检查了工作目录，而不是整个文件夹。

我也试过定位，但没有找到文件，即使我知道它在计算机上的某个地方。

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"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.

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If need to find nested in some dirs:

find / -type f -wholename "*dirname/filename"

Or connected dirs:

find / -type d -wholename "*foo/bar"
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The find command will take long time, the fastest way to search for file is using locate command, which looks for file names (and path) in a indexed database (updated by command updatedb).

The result will appear immediately with a simple command:

locate {file-name-or-path}

If the command is not found, you need to install mlocate package and run updatedb command first to prepare the search database for the first time.

More detail here: https://medium.com/@thucnc/the-fastest-way-to-find-files-by-filename-mlocate-locate-commands-55bf40b297ab

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To get rid of permission errors (and such), you can redirect stderr to nowhere

find / -name "something" 2>/dev/null
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I hope this comment will help you to find out your local & server file path using terminal 

 find "$(cd ..; pwd)" -name "filename"

Or just you want to see your Current location then run

 pwd "filename"

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