Probably a silly question, but are you really searching from the root, or doing something like:
find /The/Actual/Parent/Dir/I/Am/Looking/At/ -name '*.new' In article <[email protected]> you wrote: > So I am not very good with Unix, and now I need to find any file in a large > number of directories one directory has 130 directories with the tail .new > (yep > clean up time) > So in OMVS I know the find / -name \*.new could work. But with the number of > directories I have to search it is not performing > I am thinking there could be a REXX in Unix written to do this. ls -al and > then > search through the output > Maybe even using a grep. > But with so many of you other there with really awesome UNIX skills, what > should > I, a novice, look at to be good performing, could be run in batch (Yep like > that > option) or produce a report in a file I can find that will show me all the > files > in all the directories that have the tail I am looking for. > Thanks > Lizette Koehler -- Don Poitras - SAS Development - SAS Institute Inc. - SAS Campus Drive [email protected] (919) 531-5637 Cary, NC 27513 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
