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Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 07:41:48 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Daniel_Soares/Nursing/USB/SUNYCON@notes2.nursing.sunysb.edu,
        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Finding file paths (was: no subject)
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On Thu, 19 February 1998 at 12:00:37 -0400, Daniel_Soares/Nursing/USB/SUNYCON@notes2.nursing.sunysb.edu wrote:
>
> Is there a command in DOS that would return the path of a given file
> name.  For eg. I know a file Test.dan exists somewhere on my
> harddrive. I need to have DOS return the pathname for that file so
> that I can then pipe it into a batchfile to have it deleted.

Sorry, we don't do DOS.  Under FreeBSD, you have a number of options.

1.  If it's an executable in your PATH, you can enter

      which <filename>

2.  You can locate it with locate:

      locate <filename>

3.  You can find it with find:

      find / -name <filename>

Does this answer your question?

Greg

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