FIND function - system wide

DGoubine · #1 (**permalink**) 02-02-2005

Hi, I have a task to search for a file called 'Xstartup' in the whole system because there might be different versions of it which overrite eachother.
Can anyone suggest a smart command to run this search ? The machine needs to scan every single folder beginning from root.

Please help, I am completely lost.

pressy · #2 (**permalink**) 02-02-2005

find / -name Xstartup
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man find
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gP

jyoung · #3 (**permalink**) 02-02-2005

I use this from the root directory on AIX Unix flavor:
find . -name Xstartup -print

bhargav · #4 (**permalink**) 02-02-2005

Code:

find / -name "Xstartup"  2>/dev/null

DGoubine · #5 (**permalink**) 02-03-2005

Thanks, everyone !
I appreciate your help !
Regards
Dennis

DGoubine · #6 (**permalink**) 02-03-2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by bhargav

Code:

find / -name "Xstartup"  2>/dev/null

not to throw any permission errors on stdout.

excuse me, what the number "2" means in this line ? It reported fault a syntaxis error when I tried to run the line you suggested.
DG

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