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Old 11-16-2005
to find a file in set of directories

Hi,

what is the command in unix to find a file abc.c in a directory which had n number of sub-directories.

thanx
# 2  
Old 11-16-2005
$ find /dir -name abc.c -print
# 3  
Old 11-16-2005
You go to the root directory

command :


find . -name filename


for example I want to find the find abc.c

cd /
find . -name abc.*
# 4  
Old 11-16-2005
thanku... got the solution
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