Chris Devers wrote:

If you don't have the `locate` database on your system, you're going to
have to walk the while filesystem, using something like `find`. Here's
one way to do it, but it will be very, very, very slow:

>     $ find / -type f | grep -v '/.*/.*/.*/.*/'
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Ick!  Better to use the -maxdepth switch (if it is available.)

    $ find / -type f -maxdepth 4



John
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