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Old 03-20-2015
will this search within all the subdirectories as well in the /fast directory.

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Can you help me for the another example.

A script reside in /fast/shell/fast.sh. I tried the below command to find it . But I am unable to find the command can u help me it please.

Code:
 
find /fast -type f -name "fast.sh" {} \; 2>/dev/null

Last edited by Don Cragun; 03-20-2015 at 05:44 PM.. Reason: Fix CODE tags.
# 9  
Old 03-20-2015
Code:
find /fast -type f -name "fast.sh" 2>/dev/null

The {} \; stuff is for -exec only.
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