Directory Search

[FairbanksF]

I just have a really basic question. How do you do a directory search at the linux command line? ls will only give me listings in the present directory. Is there a switch that I am missing to have it search all subdirectories? Thanks in advance from this Linux newbie.

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

You probably want the 'find' command. By default it searches from the current directory down to all subdirectories -e.g.:

cd /etc
find -name 'httpd*'

or you can put the 'start' path in :

find /home/joeuser -name '*.pl'

See 'man find' for more (assuming you installed the documentation!)

Regards