searching for a file
    Mark Kimmerly 
    markk at sigma.UUCP
       
    Thu May 18 06:27:23 AEST 1989
    
    
  
In article <1530 at cmx.npac.syr.edu>, gefuchs at skolem.uucp (Gill E. Fuchs) writes:
> how would one search for a filename in a directory hierarchy?
> i was thinking of using :
>         find . -name 'gugu' -print
> but obviously that only works for the current directory
Check your manual again.
The command you were thinking of using should work just fine.  If
find did NOT recursively search subdirectories, it would be pretty
useless.
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