Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 10:46:05 +0000 () From: "Justin J. Ashworth" <justin@spacehog.structured.net> To: Henrik Johansson <f94jnh@student.udd.htu.se> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Live file system Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.960818104137.178F-100000@spacehog.structured.net> In-Reply-To: <199608181554.RAA17366@rs02.udd.htu.se>
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On Sun, 18 Aug 1996, Henrik Johansson wrote: > >2. DIR /S COMMAND > >Is there a UNIX equivalent to the DOS command DIR /S [filename] >which searches the entire directory tree for a certain file? find / -name 'filename' -print filename can contain wildcards. The slash is the starting point, so to search from the current directory you'd replace it with a period. Personally I find this long procedure ridiculous, so I created a small script that depends on find and takes only one parameter, the filename, and searches from the current directory. Hope that helps! ---------- Justin Ashworth justin@spacehog.structured.net
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