finding things in unix

[Mike Schwartz]

> 
> try this
> cd /
> find ./ -name filename* -print | more
> this will search all directories and list on the screen
> Don

     All of these "find" options will certainly work, but can waste a lot of
time and system resources.  Many times I've wasted several minutes and a lot
of computing horsepower searching older servers or huge file systems with a
"find" command, when the "type" command would have found what I needed in
just a second or two.

     "find" gets especially nasty if you don't have root access to a system.
(I don't have "root" access to several of the Unix servers that I do filePro
work on...)  Unless you add certain parameters, "find" will generate lot of
"you don't have permission to search this folder" errors.

     Anybody doing much Unix work should understand both the find and type
commands. 

Mike Schwartz