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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Is a simple one command to find a file? Post 6922 by kapilv on Saturday 15th of September 2001 03:13:02 AM
Old 09-15-2001
HI

Also
find . -name "filename"
will work the same way as
find . -name "filename" -print
 

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