Question

I am trying to to create a shell script to echo the contents of a file that I am not sure where to find it.

I thought it would be something like:

$echo | ls /* | grep file.xml

where my file could be in some unknown subfolder so I am trying to search for it’s path with grep.

Any help on correct syntax would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

You can use find:

find / -name file.xml -exec cat '{}' ';'

/ says to look in / and its subdirectories; -name file.xml says to find files named file.xml; and -exec cat '{}' ';' says to run, e.g., cat /path/to/file.xml for each of those files, which prints out their contents.