> On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 16:57, Scott Koos wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> >    Dumb question on grep, I'm trying to find if a file exists and the path
> > to it.  ls -laR | grep yyyyy shows me the yyyyy file exists, is there a way
> > to show the path to the file also.
>
> find is your friend
>
> find . -name "*yyyyy*" -print
>

Also, locate is often pretty handy"
locate yyyyy

for more info,
man locate

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