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Date:      22 Dec 1997 12:52:41 +0100
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        michael dorin <mike@chaski.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: using the find command
Message-ID:  <p1id8ipa92u.fsf@panke.panke.de>
In-Reply-To: michael dorin's message of Sun, 21 Dec 1997 14:41:54 %2B0000 ()
References:  <199712211441.OAA13857@chaski.com>

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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

	or

$ find . -name '*string*' -print

-- 
Wolfram Schneider   <wosch@freebsd.org>   http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/



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