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To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
cc: Online Impressions <oli@olim.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: How to find a file.. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 17 Aug 1997 15:11:40 +0930."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 23:13:17 -0700
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>On Sat, Aug 16, 1997 at 10:22:37PM -0700, Online Impressions wrote:
>>
>> Is there a command that will tell me if a file exists and if so where it
>> can be found?
>
>Yes.
>
>> I have been using "ls -R |grep filename" to determine if a file
>> exists but the trouble is if it does this command fails to tell me
>> where it is.

   In addition to "locate", you can also do the brute-force thing:

find . -name "filename"

   "filename" can also contain wildcards.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project