Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 09:44:30 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> Cc: michael dorin <mike@chaski.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using the find command Message-ID: <19971223094430.20189@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <p1id8ipa92u.fsf@panke.panke.de>; from Wolfram Schneider on Mon, Dec 22, 1997 at 12:52:41PM %2B0100 References: <199712211441.OAA13857@chaski.com> <p1id8ipa92u.fsf@panke.panke.de>
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On Mon, Dec 22, 1997 at 12:52:41PM +0100, Wolfram Schneider wrote: > michael dorin <mike@chaski.com> writes: >> Can somebody give me the syntax for using the find command to search >> all the files in a tree for a specific string? > > $ locate string While this is a useful tool, it doesn't search a tree: it looks up the names in a database which is built every Friday night by the /etc/weekly script. If you don't leave your machine running overnight, you won't have this file, so the method won't work. It also won't work for any files added since last Friday. > $ find . -name '*string*' -print You don't need -print on our version of find (you do for System V). Greg
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