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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