searching for a file
Ray E. Saddler III
ray3rd at ssc-vax.UUCP
Tue May 9 02:00:52 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
/
/____wrong!
> how would one make that a recursive search, something a la ls -R
Find *does* a recursive search [at least on BSD 4.2 & 4.3, and SYSV
3.1]. Use 'find . -name gugu -print'. It will [should] work unless
your flavor or *ix is unusual enough to *not* recursivly search.
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