finding things in unix

[Dennis Malen]

Correction: I cd / and then find. Looks in all directories. I have always 
been able to find a file this way.

Dennis Malen
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jean-Pierre A. Radley" <appl at jpr.com>
To: "FilePro Mailing List" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: finding things in unix


> Dennis Malen propounded (on Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 01:57:55PM -0400):
> | Yes, your summary and conclusions drawn are correct. Find is the most 
> useful
> | as it looks in all directories without providing the proper  PATH.
>
> Another of your mis-statements...
>
> Find does not look "in all directories".  It looks under specified
> directories.
>
> -- 
> JP
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