Macbook Snow Leopard Unzipped file

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I used Terminal command to unzip an audio file downloaded from a public library. Command used: unzip -v /<zip filename.zip>; rm -rf _MACOSX. Terminal displayed 31 files were extracted and stored. I used both Search in Finder and Go to Folder to find the files and only 1 pdf file was found. The other 30 files, all mp3, went missing.

I noticed that the more than 1gb of disk space was gone. So I assume the files are residing somewhere. Could anyone please help. Many thanks!

Best Answer

The unix command to search for files is find.

You can use the command man find to get more information. The usual form is the following.

find  <starting folder>  -name  <file name>  -print

For example, if you are looking for all mp3 files in the current folder and all nested folders, use the following command.

find  .  -name  "*.mp3"  -print

Sometimes you can get a lot of "permission denied" or other meaningless error messages. If so, then you can remove all error messages by appending a 2>/dev/null to the end of the command. See the example below.

find  .  -name  "*.mp3"  -print  2>/dev/null
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