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Old 12-04-2001
recusion through file system

is there anyway the following command can be executed recursively throught the whole file system. The command searches for a specific file name and shows a count of how many files there are with that particular name

ls -a | grep -c [filename]
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Old 12-04-2001
You could do:

ls -lR | grep -c <filename>

But you could do:

find / -name <filename> -print | wc -l

and it will do the same thing. Smilie

fixed html tags --oombera

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