searching for a file

[Guangliang He]

In article <1530 at cmx.npac.syr.edu> gefuchs at logiclab.cis.syr.edu (Gill E. Fuchs) writes:
>
>how would
 one search for a filename in a directory hierarchy?
>
>supose i know there exists a file call  gugu  but i cannot remmember
>in which sub-directory?
>
>i was thinking of using :
>        find . -name 'gugu' -print
>but obviously that only works for the current directory
>how would one make that a recursive search, something a la ls -R
>
>still in search of gugu
>gill

I don't know what flavor of UNIX you are using. On most unix systems I know
of(Sys V and BSD), find(1) does search recursively. Check your manual see if
it search recursively or not.



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