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Stackoverflow Question/Answer: I have a file that may be in a different place on each user's machine. Is there a way to implement a search for the file? A way that I can pass the file's name and the directory tree to search in? Find a file in python

Bing AI gives some examples, listed below... but I'm not sure what you're passing in as a filename. Is it just supposed to find any file with that filename in the whole operating system? I think you need to give it a hint as to where your file might be.

import os

def find_filename(directory, filename):
    files = os.listdir(directory)
    if filename in files:
        return os.path.join(directory, filename)
    else:
        return None

# Example usage
directory = '/path/to/directory'
filename = 'example.txt'
result = find_filename(directory, filename)
print(result if result else "File not found")

import os

def find_filename(directory, filename):
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(directory):
        if filename in files:
            return os.path.join(root, filename)
    return None

# Example usage
directory = '/path/to/directory'
filename = 'example.txt'
result = find_filename(directory, filename)
print(result if result else "File not found")

import subprocess

def find_file(root_folder, filename):
    result = subprocess.run(['find', root_folder, '-name', filename], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, text=True)
    files = result.stdout.splitlines()
    return files

# Example usage
file_paths = find_file('/path/to/search', 'target_file.txt')
if file_paths:
    for path in file_paths:
        print(f'File found at: {path}')
else:
    print('File not found')

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