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Old 01-10-2008
Reg:how to search a file recursivly
Hi Guys,

can any help to write a script to search for a file Recursively and i need to write a path of the file into some other file.

May be upto 5 directories.

Regards,
Rajanikanth.
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Old 01-10-2008
Use the the find command and redirect the output to your file.

Regards
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Old 01-10-2008
Actuly i d'not know unix.....just i am leaner...
can oyu pls post it...
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Old 01-14-2008
Hammer & Screwdriver try this ..
find / -name filename -print > logfile 2>/dev/null

This will find all the files with name as filename from / and will write the output to logfile.

Hope this will help u ..Smilie
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