Finding Directories With "Find" Command?

Hi again,

I'm having trouble trying to use the find command to find a directory. I purposely made a directory in:
totallylinux@superpc:/usr/share/azureus/plugins$
Called "OMG" and it's really got me baffled how I can find it in the terminal window. I can easily use the "find" command to find files but for some reason it doesn't allow me to find directories. Anyway here is the command I am using:

find "OMG" -type -d -print

And, sadly, it doesn't find it. :(

What I would like it to acheive is to find the directory and list it's path. If someone can help me with this issue, it would make me a lot happier :)

I seldom use the find command and always rely on 'locate'

Code:

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locate "OMG"

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It might say you need to update your database. If so:

Code:

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updatedb

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If it says the database file can't be found then it needs to be created.

Code:

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updatedb -u

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Then try the first command again.

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Originally Posted by InvisibleSniper

find "OMG" -type -d -print

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Your syntax is incorrect.

Code:

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find /directory/to/search -type -d -name "OMG"

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-print isn't necessary as that is the default.

I wanted to do a recursive search and search through every directory without specifying any of them. Anyway I managed to do it with my command syntax I was origionally using, the only problem is that I had to login as 'SU' to do it... 'sudo' didn't work for some reason.

Go through www.amitsharma.linuxbloggers.com/how_to_find.htm for further more complicated examples.

Using / will start the search from the root, so you don't have to remember where it might be. Specifying -type d first may speed up your search. Not sure about sudo.

sudo find / -type d -name 'OMG'

Closing this old thread.