hi unix guru's..................
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hi unix guru's..................( the question is here)
I was asking if there is any command or logic which will give the complete path of file situated in any of the directories in database.
please donot say its "pwd" or "find command" because "pwd" gives only the current working directory and "find" command is not suitable as my database is very huge and it will take days for "find" to configure out the direcory.
the path of the file that i wanted to know will be present either in the parent directory or parent's parent directory so on............
i think i made my point clear.......
thanks in advance...................
You need to write a script and the pwd command can be of use.
If you get the current working directory, you can recursively traverse the path and check for the existence of your file.
If pwd returns a/b/c/d/e/ then you check for the existence of a/b/c/d/file, a/b/c/file, etc until you find it.