On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Roger Fischer wrote:

> PS.
> What's an easy way to search for a file using grep?
> I've been doing it the slow way using
> "ls /*/<filename>"
> "ls /*/*/<filename>"
> "ls /*/*/*/<filename>"
> and so on until I find it.

Don't use grep.  Instead, try

	find / -name "<filename>"

(Put the file name in quotes if it has any globbing chars, like *.
Otherwise you can just find / -name <filename>)


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