Linux question

Sean McMahon smcmahon at usgs.gov
Tue Dec 28 12:36:25 EST 2004


read the man page for the locate command.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn at home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 5:31 PM
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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