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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Find file on server, searching thru many folders Post 302078982 by hu$h on Thursday 6th of July 2006 06:15:45 AM
Old 07-06-2006
Find / -name “name_of_file” would work as it searches the root and down. It would also supply the absolute path within its std output.
 

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