I need to find all .pem files on my system. Would the following do this?
sudo find / -type f -name *.pem
If not, how would I write a find command to find every file of the sort?
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You're on the right track -- you just need to quote the pattern so that it gets interpreted by find and not by your shell:
sudo find / -type f -name '*.pem'
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You beat me to it. :) – EEAA May 24 '12 at 20:35
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2/me holsters the pistols ;-) – mgorven May 24 '12 at 20:36
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Using find / will normally be very slow. Using locate is much faster but somewhat imprecise because it doesn't support anything more complex than substring matching. A directory called .pembroke will be found and returned by locate along with every file inside it.
A combination of locate and grep, however, has speed and precision. Conveniently, it also does not require sudo.
locate .pem | grep "\.pem$"
The downside? The database locate uses is normally only updated once per day so any recent changes (additions, deletions, name changes, etc.) will not be found.
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Almost!
sudo find / -type f -name \*.pem
or
sudo find / -type f -name "*.pem"
otherwise the shell will interpret the * instead of find.
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\\* is a bit depended on the shell and the flavor of Unix. (Will work as intended on most systems though.) The quoted version will always work as far as I know. – Tonny May 24 '12 at 21:52
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That's funny. Had to write \\\* to escape the escape. Very appropriate in this case. – Tonny May 24 '12 at 21:54
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...or if mlocate runs on your computer and you don't need the most actual data use locate command
locate *.pam
It's faster becouse it finds files in previously created database; not on whole system.
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