searching for a file

[Guy Harris]

>how would one search for a filename in a directory hierarchy?

With the "find" command.

>supose i know there exists a file call  gugu  but i cannot remmember
>in which sub-directory?

	find . -name gugu -print

>i was thinking of using :
>        find . -name 'gugu' -print

You got it...

>but obviously that only works for the current directory

...but obviously you haven't RTFM; "find" does *NOT* search only the
current directory - the whole point of "find" is that it *does* search
recursively.