I am trying to fetch one file from two different paths.I used below command, seems execution fine but there is no output.
find . \( -path "/usr/local" -o -path "/user/local/archive" \) -name "xyz.csv"
Could you please help me on this?
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Hello Sir, I tried with every mentioned commands but seems negative for me ! – user7268185 May 22 '17 at 06:20
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4find /usr/local /user/local/archive -type f -name "xyz.csv" – Kamaraj May 22 '17 at 06:45
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_Fetch one file from two different paths_ ... Pardon?! Do you mean to **search** for a file in two different directories? or in two different directory trees? – countermode May 22 '17 at 08:05
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The reasons you don't get output:
- The dot
.is the root of your search, so if your are not in the root directory, you won't have/usr/localin your search tree - The
-pathoption has to match the whole path, including the object to find, so if you have given a-namethis name needs to be part of the-path, too (or be globbed with*at the end)
But find takes more than one argument as search path, so you can search like @Kamaraj wrote in his comment. In your case this is not even neccessary, as find also searches in subdirectories, thus find /usr/local -type f -name xyz.csv will also find /usr/local/archiv/xyz.csv
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1probably a typo from OP, but they are two different paths... `usr` vs `user` – Sundeep May 22 '17 at 07:32