Linux question

[Sina Bahram]

Also look at:

man locate
man which
man whereis

Take care,
Sina

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Glenn at home
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 7:32 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Linux question


I have been reading the man pages:
man find
and
man dir
and I cannot figure out how to search all subdirectories for a file or 
folder.
I am trying to make folders and change welcome.msg on the FTP server. Glenn

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Luke Yelavich" <themuso at themuso.com>
To: "Glenn at home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>; "Speakup is a screen review 
system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 6:27 PM
Subject: Re: Linux question


On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 10:42:13AM EST, Glenn at home wrote:
> How do I find files or folders globally?
> I assume I need to be at the top of the directory, i.e., at slash.

find / -name your-filename.here

Read the find man page for more info.

Luke

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