And one more basic one:
find ./ -name whatever
finds starting at the current directory location. This plus Richard's two
will cover most situations you are likely to face.
At 08:51 PM 7/26/00 +0000, Richard Adams wrote:
>On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Chris S wrote about, recursive find cmd:
>> i have already looked at the man pages on find, but could someone
>> just tell me how i go about finding files/folders recursively throught
>> the directory tree?
>find / -name pipo*
>Serach the whole disk for any file starting with 'pipo'
>
>find /usr/local/src/ -name pipo*
>
>Same again but now only look in '/usr/local/src/*'
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