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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
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