finding things in unix

[Dennis Malen]

Yes Don, we always use find. I was just responding to a prior thread that 
"type" does not work in AIX. Find has always worked.

Dennis Malen
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Bush" <don at caffco.com>
To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>; "Kenneth Brody" 
<kenbrody at spamcop.net>
Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: finding things in unix


> 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
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net>
>>To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
>>Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
>>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