How to locate a path?

If you are unable to find the file with the below command then try updatedb for updating db used by locate command.

locate -r foot/bar/

# locate  "/*/bar/avi"
/foot/bar/avi

find command can also do this

find / -path */foot/bar*

find / will search the whole system starting from /

using find command,

find . -ipath "*foo/bar*"

or if you prefer regex syntax then you can use,

find . -iregex ".*foo/bar.*"

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