Re: file search?

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From: Lekeas GK
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 23:38

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If you are looking for the actual filename, try find . -type f -exec grep
-i filename {} \;

George

On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Brad Pybus wrote:

> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 18:03:37 -0500
> From: Brad Pybus <brad_pybus7zwq@hotmail.com>
> Newsgroups: be.comp.os.unix, comp.unix.misc, comp.unix.questions,
>     comp.unix.shell
> Subject: file search?
> 
> I would like to know how to use type in a unix command at the command line
> to search the entire directory structure for a particular file (preferrably
> case insensitive if possible).  I know almost nothing about unix.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>

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From: Lekeas GK <cj571@soi.city.ac.uk>
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