How to find a partial directory path?












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Suppose I don't know where my Django source is stored, but I know that it contains these directories in this way: django/contrib/admin.



How can I use the find command or any more appropriate coreutils command to find where this partial directory path (structure) is available?



Example output:



/home/me/python/extracted/django/contrib/admin/
/home/me/env/django/contrib/admin/









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  • The locate command does this for you, assuming that its database is up to date.

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Suppose I don't know where my Django source is stored, but I know that it contains these directories in this way: django/contrib/admin.



How can I use the find command or any more appropriate coreutils command to find where this partial directory path (structure) is available?



Example output:



/home/me/python/extracted/django/contrib/admin/
/home/me/env/django/contrib/admin/









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  • The locate command does this for you, assuming that its database is up to date.

    – Thomas Dickey
    4 hours ago














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Suppose I don't know where my Django source is stored, but I know that it contains these directories in this way: django/contrib/admin.



How can I use the find command or any more appropriate coreutils command to find where this partial directory path (structure) is available?



Example output:



/home/me/python/extracted/django/contrib/admin/
/home/me/env/django/contrib/admin/









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Suppose I don't know where my Django source is stored, but I know that it contains these directories in this way: django/contrib/admin.



How can I use the find command or any more appropriate coreutils command to find where this partial directory path (structure) is available?



Example output:



/home/me/python/extracted/django/contrib/admin/
/home/me/env/django/contrib/admin/






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  • The locate command does this for you, assuming that its database is up to date.

    – Thomas Dickey
    4 hours ago



















  • The locate command does this for you, assuming that its database is up to date.

    – Thomas Dickey
    4 hours ago

















The locate command does this for you, assuming that its database is up to date.

– Thomas Dickey
4 hours ago





The locate command does this for you, assuming that its database is up to date.

– Thomas Dickey
4 hours ago










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You should use -path flag for such purpose



find /home/me  -path "*django/contrib/admin*"





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    You should use -path flag for such purpose



    find /home/me  -path "*django/contrib/admin*"





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