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Date: Sat, 5 Jul 1997 09:43:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To: Gordon Wang <guelph@tpts5.seed.net.tw>
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On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, Gordon Wang wrote:

> Dear Sir
> What is the equivalent command in FreeBSD to the MS-Dos command
> " dir filename  /s "(search the file in all the file system)?

find / -name 'filename' -print

Or more quickly, if the machine has been up awhile, and the file has been
there awhile.

locate filename