Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!gatech!prism!mailer.cc.fsu.edu!uflorida!kluge!serss0.fiu.edu From: acmfiu@serss0.fiu.edu (ACMFIU) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: pathname searching Message-ID: <2494@kluge.fiu.edu> Date: 16 Feb 91 14:21:36 GMT Sender: news@kluge.fiu.edu Organization: Florida International University, Miami Lines: 5 is there some unix function i can call with a list of pathnames (ala "/foo/foo:/oof/oof:/etc/tec") and a filename ("foo") and it will return a string containing the pathname of where the file was found. albert