Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 06:22:59 +1100 (EDT) From: "loren" <lore@phile.com.au> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "Ed Keith" <edk@kew.com> Subject: Re: Looking for files Message-ID: <199905200621.3137338.6@names.phile.com.au> In-Reply-To: <374318C9.CBAA460A@kew.com>
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Ed Although I had to read the man pages several times, the command you want is "find" In this case, you'd use: find / -name "xyz*" The "/" part will instruct it to start looking from the top of the filesystem hierarchy. Instead, you could use "." if you wanted to start the search from the current directory and limit the search to the subdirs of where you are. As you are now well aware, seeing the file system is case sensitive, you might want to consider searching for "[Xx][Yy][Zz]*" if you cant find it on the first run. This is a very powerful command as you'll see when you read the man pages. Cheers Loren >In DOS if I'm looking for a file that I don't remember the full name of, >but I know it starts with "xyz" I can "cd /" and "dir /s xyz*.*" and >find out where it is. > >How can I do this in FreeBSD? > >Thank you in advance, > > -EdK > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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