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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: searching for a file
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Date: 8 May 89 05:45:24 GMT
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In article <1530@cmx.npac.syr.edu> gefuchs@logiclab.cis.syr.edu (Gill
E. Fuchs) writes:
>i was thinking of using :
>        find . -name 'gugu' -print
>but obviously that only works for the current directory
>how would one make that a recursive search, something a la ls -R

  No, actually, this "obviously" will do a recursive search, which is
(apparently) what you want.  From the man page for find(1):

SYNOPSIS
     find pathname-list expression
     find pattern

DESCRIPTION
     In the first form above, find recursively descends the
     directory hierarchy for each pathname in the pathname-list
     (i.e., one or more pathnames) seeking files that match a
     boolean expression written in the primaries given below.

And here's an example from actual usage:

   % find . -name delete -print
   ./vax/delete
   ./vax/delete/delete
   ./Mail/delete
   ./rtbin/delete
   ./vaxbin/delete
   ./rt/delete
   ./rt/delete/delete
   ./src/delete
   ./NeXTbin/delete
   ./NeXT/delete
   ./NeXT/delete/delete

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