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Old 08-26-2008
agasamapetilon agasamapetilon is offline
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You can also specify the directory in which you want to look for, cause if you specify only / it look up in the whole system.

Code:
find /tmp -name filename


Last edited by agasamapetilon; 08-26-2008 at 05:02 PM..