This tutorial will take you through the different ways of finding a directory in Linux. As you may already know, in Linux everything is a file including directories. And one of the common things a Linux user will do within the command line is searching for a file or a directory.
There are several different means and utilities used for searching for files on the command line such as find, locate and which. However, the last utility (which) is only used for locating a command.
For the scope of this tutorial, we will mainly focus on the find utility, which searches files on a live Linux filesystem and is more efficient and reliable as compared to locate.
The downside of locate is that it reads one or more databases created by updatedb, it does not search through a live filesystem. In addition, it does not as well offer flexibility regarding where to search from (starting point).
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