Newbie to Unix

[cceng]

Is there a command to locate a file on our root device? A command similar to the dos command "dir filename /s" where is will search all sub directories also.

Thanks!

 

[lumberg]

try

find / -name XXXXX -print

 

[cceng]

Thanks,

I did try this before and got nothing back. Does this only check the current directory?

 

[Guest_imported]

No, the find command searches all sub-directories within it also. So, if you didn't find the file , then it is probably not there or you mis-spelt the name. Are you using wild characters ?

Cheers.

 

[cceng]

I did find it. I was looking for the wrong file.

Thanks!