finding things in unix

[Dennis Malen]

Yes and it works perfectly.

Dennis Malen
516.479.5912
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net>
To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
Cc: "FilePro Mailing List" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: finding things in unix


> On 4/26/2010 4:27 PM, Dennis Malen wrote:
> [...]
>> From: "Jean-Pierre A. Radley" <appl at jpr.com>
> [...]
>>> | 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.
>>>
>> Correction: I cd / and then find. Looks in all directories. I have always
>> been able to find a file this way.
>
> Exactly what JP said.  You specified the root directory on the "find" 
> command line.
>
> -- 
> Kenneth Brody