Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 23:13:17 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Online Impressions <oli@olim.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to find a file.. Message-ID: <199708170613.XAA07656@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 17 Aug 1997 15:11:40 %2B0930." <19970817151140.37942@lemis.com>
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>On Sat, Aug 16, 1997 at 10:22:37PM -0700, Online Impressions wrote: >> >> Is there a command that will tell me if a file exists and if so where it >> can be found? > >Yes. > >> I have been using "ls -R |grep filename" to determine if a file >> exists but the trouble is if it does this command fails to tell me >> where it is. In addition to "locate", you can also do the brute-force thing: find . -name "filename" "filename" can also contain wildcards. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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