what is ">" prompt telling me ?

[anneranch]

OK, did not fiind any "hci" , but what is the next ">" telling me ?

qy@qy-desktop:~$ sudo find . -type f -name *hci"
>

 

[JasKinasis]

At the end of the command is a lone double quote, so it’s expecting further input. The shell is waiting for you to type some more code and close the quote before it evaluates/executes the command.

I think you accidentally missed the opening quote before the * wildcard you’re using in the filename.
So I think you meant to type this:

sudo find . -type f -name "*hci"