[Cialug] Help finding file?

[kristau]

There are several ways to skin that particular cat. This is the one I use
most often:

find / | grep -i <partial file name>
 On Jan 2, 2012 3:37 PM, "Tom Sellers" <tomsellers2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> What is the Ubuntu linux command to locate a file anywhere on the disk?  I
> need to have it search the whole directory structure not just the current
> directory for the file.
>
> If I use find by itself it lists all directory items but it I list the
> file name after the find command it only seems to search the local
> directory and tells me that it is not there.
>
> Surely there is a command to do this.  I just haven't been able to find it.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Cialug mailing list
> Cialug at cialug.org
> http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://cialug.org/pipermail/cialug/attachments/20120102/80890637/attachment.html>