[Cialug] Help finding file?

[Hawkins]

Tom,

try "find / -name filename.xxx"

filename.xxx = what you are looking for

Steve

On 1/2/12 3:37 PM, Tom Sellers 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.
>
>
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