How to find a directory on linux?

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 874

It is:

find / -type d -name 'httpdocs'

the first parameter "/" is where to look, in this case "/" it's the entire system.

-name could be -iname to ignore case

also -type is not mandatory

use : man find for more options

ANSWER 2

Score 86

this command should get you what you are looking for:

find / -type d -name httpdocs

that will search from the root of your server for directories with the name of httpdocs or if you just want to search from the current directory replace the '/' with a '.'

Another command you can try is locate you would do something like:

locate httpdocs

ANSWER 3

Score 40

find / -type d -name httpdocs 2> /dev/null

This will eliminate all the error messages you'll likely (read, always) get when not doing this as the root user. Would recommend doing it this way.

ANSWER 4

Score 10

you almost have it. the correct syntax would be:

find / -type d -name httpdocs

The directory is likely under /var/www/