From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 6 05:38:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA25448 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 05:38:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA25443 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 05:38:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt1-233.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.233]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.7/8.8.6) with ESMTP id HAA07888; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 07:38:33 -0500 (CDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.7/8.8.4) with ESMTP id HAA06642; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 07:38:31 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199710061238.HAA06642@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: vagner@spdc.ti.com (George Vagner) cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: dkelly@hiwaay.net Subject: Re: finding a file In-reply-to: Message from vagner@spdc.ti.com (George Vagner) of "Mon, 06 Oct 1997 06:16:22 CDT." <9710061116.AA05886@epcot.spdc.ti.com.spdc.ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 07:38:29 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > this is a newbie question , i hope it dont offend you.... > > I was wondering how to find a file that is somewhere on my hard drive buried > in some deep directory? > > i tried grep -f *.xxx and others but i am just too dumb to figure > out how to make it search thru all of the directories for a file. man find % find / -name lost.file.name % find / -name "lost*name" -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.