finding things in unix

[Don Bush]

At 12:26 PM 4/23/2010, Dennis Malen wrote:
>Yes, those all work. But when looking for a specific file it does not unless
>you are sitting in the directory.
>
>Dennis Malen
>516.479.5912
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>From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net>
>To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
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>Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 11:26 AM
>Subject: Re: finding things in unix
>
>
> > On 4/23/2010 11:20 AM, Dennis Malen wrote:
> >> For AIX if you cd to / and type p it works. If I type in a full name of
> >> a file at / it does not work and responds with not found. If I go into
> >> the directory that it resides in it does work.
> > [...]
> >
> > Can you give some specific examples?  The current directory makes no
> > difference to "type", unless "." is in PATH, and it's not found elsewhere.
> >
> > What about these?
> >
> >   cd /
> >   type p
> >   cd /tmp
> >   type p
> >   cd /appl/filepro/zipcodes
> >   type p
> >
> > --
> > Kenneth Brody
>
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try this
cd /
find ./ -name filename* -print | more
this will search all directories and list on the screen
Don