How To Search Files Using Linux Shell

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many of our customer who have linux server would find this command helpful.
lets say you wan to search for a particular file in your linux file system, for example, you want to find the apache configuration file - we all know its located at: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf - but how about if you didnt know that? well, you would just send this command in the shell terminal:

# find / -name httpd.conf -print

ok how about if you wanted to find some log file? as you know, the logs are located in the /var/log directory so you can send this command:

# find /var/log -name some*.log -print

this command will find any file in the /var/log directory which starts with some and ends with .log

hope that helps