finding things in unix

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Dennis Malen propounded (on Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 06:00:06PM -0400):
| >> 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 
| 
| Yes and it works perfectly.

You are missing the point of Ken's correction.  Whether 'find works
perfectly' has never been in question, at all, ever....  Please admit
that you did precisely what I said that the find command requires: YOU
specified WHAT was to be searched.

-- 
JP