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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: searching for a file
Message-ID: <1592@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 8 May 89 18:57:27 GMT
References: <1530@cmx.npac.syr.edu>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>how would one search for a filename in a directory hierarchy?

With the "find" command.

>supose i know there exists a file call  gugu  but i cannot remmember
>in which sub-directory?

	find . -name gugu -print

>i was thinking of using :
>        find . -name 'gugu' -print

You got it...

>but obviously that only works for the current directory

...but obviously you haven't RTFM; "find" does *NOT* search only the
current directory - the whole point of "find" is that it *does* search
recursively.