searching for a file

Paul Houtz gph at hpsemc.HP.COM
Wed May 10 03:07:25 AEST 1989


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



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