In article <1530 at cmx.npac.syr.edu> gefuchs at logiclab.cis.syr.edu (Gill E. Fuchs) writes: > find . -name 'gugu' -print >but obviously that only works for the current directory No. This will descend the directory tree from current directory thru all subdirectories. If you want to start at root, enter: find / -name 'gugu' -print