[Nelug] finding files

[Steven]

No man pages installed on my server (trustix secure server) unfortunatly!
Knew about the find command but find --help was rather cryptic!

Thankx


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Hatch" <andrew.hatch at bluespace.com>
To: <nelug at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 7:06 PM
Subject: RE: [Nelug] finding files


> > Is there a command to recursivly search all folders on a system for a
file
> > called "index.html"
> > and output results to the screen.
>
> There is, and it's called 'find'.  Its often installed by default (RedHat
> and Debian usually do).  Do a 'man find' in order to see all the options,
> but you probably want to do something like:
>
> find /some/path -iname index.html
>
> e.g:
>
> find /var/www -iname index.html
>
> which will return, e.g:
>
> /var/www/index.html
> /var/www/subdir/index.html
> ...
>
> for each index.html it finds.
>
> HTH,
>
> Andrew
>
>
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