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From: gph@hpsemc.HP.COM (Paul Houtz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: searching for a file
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Date: 9 May 89 17:07:25 GMT
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In article <1530@cmx.npac.syr.edu> gefuchs@logiclab.cis.syr.edu (Gill E. Fuchs) writes:
>        find . -name 'gugu' -print
>but obviously that only works for the current directory

   No.  This will descend the directory tree from current directory thru
all subdirectories.   If you want to start at root, enter:

         find / -name 'gugu' -print