I only have a file name which is myfile.txt
and I am not sure where it is saved. How can I get the exact full path where the file is stored?
I have tried
$string=`ls /abc/def/*/*/*/*/myfile.txt`;
Result: The full path is /abc/def/ghi/jkl/mno/pqr/myfile.txt
I able to get the full path by running shell command
using the Perl script above. However, this took very long time to return the path. Is that a way to find the full path of the file by using Perl?
Best Answer
Well, if
myfile.txt
is actually a relative path to that file, there's a core module sub for that - File::Spec->rel2abs():... and if you actually need to search through your directories for that file, there's File::Find... but I would go with shell
find / -name myfile.txt -print
command probably.