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thanks for your recent post. i have this command /usr/bin/time find /usr -name socket.h -print/usr/bin/time find /usr -name socket.h -print which i have ran on my personal linux machine. I dont know how to interpret this command...does it mean that find the names in the usr directory and print it through socket h? Im new to unix so basically I just want to understand what results i should be looking for and how to understand that command.
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Old 04-23-2004
" /usr/bin/time find /usr -name socket.h"

Basically you have two commands - one is the time command. The other is the find command.

With the find command - you are looking for the file socket.h under /usr filesystem. If there are mutliple files with this name, it will show you where each one is.

The time command simply times how long the find command takes.

From your UNIX system, type in man find
or man time to read the man pages which will give you much more information.
 
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