finding things in unix

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Dennis Malen wrote:

> Mike,
> 
> type only works if you are sitting in the actual directory that the file 
> resides. Find seems to search all directories. At least that is the way it 
> worked on AIX.

No, 'find' searches in the specified directory and all directories within 
it. In my example '.' was the specified directory; in Fairlight's, '/' was 
the specified directory.

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