Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 07:38:29 -0500 From: dkelly@hiwaay.net To: vagner@spdc.ti.com (George Vagner) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: finding a file Message-ID: <199710061238.HAA06642@nospam.hiwaay.net> 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>
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> 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.
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