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From: rae98@wash08.uucp (Robert A. Earl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Descending directory hierarchy?
Keywords: directory list find search
Message-ID: <1989Dec1.175546.12415@wash08.uucp>
Date: 1 Dec 89 17:55:46 GMT
References: <1372@lakesys.lakesys.com>
Reply-To: rae98@wash08.UUCP (Robert A. Earl)
Distribution: usa
Organization: American Chemical Society, Washington, DC
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In article <1372@lakesys.lakesys.com> johnb@lakesys.lakesys.com (John C. Burant) writes:
>I've been thinking about the find command on SysV's... the one that makes you
>type find / name [filename] -print to find files, and only finds files with
>the exact filename specified... and I've been thinking about writing a program
>that will act like the BSD find... it list all files with the phrase you look
>for in the filename... (like if I looked for t, I'd get a lot of files listed)
>
>Thanks.
>-John

At least on my SVR2 (NCR Tower 32/[468]X0, you can do this with:
find /usr01/rae98 -name "*unix*" -print
which gives:
/usr01/rae98/News/comp/unix
/usr01/rae98/News/comp/sources/unix

Which probably isn't the best way to show what I meant, but you get the idea...

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