[Nelug] finding files

Chris Burton Chris at burtyb.demon.co.uk
Wed Aug 20 19:09:00 UTC 2003


> Is there a command to recursivly search all folders on a system for a file
> called "index.html"
> and output results to the screen.
> ps. the system has no gui hence I need a console command.

Hi,

You can use:
$ find / -name "index.html"
and for more options that you can use with find
$ man find

Chris.
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