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Little bit weired : Find files in UNIX w/o using find or where command

Yes , I have to find a file in unix without using any find or where commands.Any pointers for the same would be very helpful as i am beginner in shell scritping and need a solution for the same.

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Yes , I have to find a file in unix without using any find or where commands.Any pointers for the same would be very helpful as i am beginner in shell scritping and need a solution for the same.

Thanks in advance.

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the only reason i guess you can't use find is you might be doing homework. but nevertheless .. if you can't use find, use locate? the other way is to use ls with -R option.

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Hi Ghost,
i tried using ls but how to do it recursively ls -r ?. It dint work for me
i will show u a snippet of my script

#!/bin/sh
echo $1 #display the input entered
c=$1
ls -l $c | awk `(if(NR>0) pwd)` # usinf ls command and awk i m trying to get those records and print its path,pwd is not working there
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assuming you know the file name
Code:
#!/bin/sh
ls -lR / | awk -v filename="$1" '/^\//{ dir=$0} 
                /^-/{ if ( $9 == filename ) { 
		       print "Found " filename " in "dir
		      }
		
		}'

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awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: bailing out near line 1
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