I tried using the command
sudo find / -type d -iname firefox It gave me the following output
/usr/share/doc/firefox /usr/lib/firefox /home/ashu/.mozilla/firefox /etc/firefox But i have a directory named firefox located at
/usr/local/sbin/in
why is not it listed here ?
Most probably because /usr/local/sbin/in (or one of the earlier components) is a symlink to another directory. find doesn't follow symlinks by default; use -follow or -L to change this, but be aware that it can lead to find looping over a directory tree.
Is it named just firefox? Is does not have version numbers attached to the name? You are not using wildcards in your find statement, so a directory called firefox-3 will not be found.
Since you mentioned geeokosaur was right, you can use this form to include the direct symlink:
sudo find / \( -type d -o -xtype d \) -iname firefox Or as geekosaur, suggested already, use find -L as that also deals with the case where (say) /usr/local/sbin is a symbolic link.
