Search script

[Winning]

I found this script online and I made a few tweaks to it but it appears that it only searches the current directory. Is there a way to make it search the entire file system. Here is the script:

import stat
import sys
import os
import string
import commands

try:
    pattern = raw_input("Enter the file name to search for:\n")
    commandString = "find " + pattern
    commandOutput = commands.getoutput(commandString)
    findResults = string.split(commandOutput, "\n")

    print "Files:"
    print commandOutput
    print "========================================="
    for file in findResults:
        mode=stat.S_IMODE(os.lstat(file)[stat.ST_MODE])
except:
    print "There was a problem in searching"

[A3MIRAL]

Try

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commandString = "find /  " + pattern


[Winning]

Nope tried and it didnt work.

Would it have to do with its not trying to find the files in / but finding a file /?

[A3MIRAL]

In terminal

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find -help


[Trcx528]

Try

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commandString = "find /  " + pattern


Close, do

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commandString = "find /  -name " + pattern