Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!osu-cis!tut!lvc From: lvc@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Lawrence V. Cipriani) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Finding Files Summary: don't need grep Message-ID: <3069@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 10 Dec 87 05:46:58 GMT References: <205700003@prism> <4441@ihlpg.ATT.COM> Organization: Ohio State Computer & Info Science Lines: 19 In article <4441@ihlpg.ATT.COM>, bamford@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Harold E. Bamford) writes: > > At the risk of being one of thousands with an alternative: > > alias f="find . -type f -print" > > If I want to find a particular file: f | grep filename > Try the -name option of find: find dir -name '*filename*' -a -print this tends to be faster. -- Larry Cipriani AT&T Network Systems at cbosgd!osu-cis!tut!lvc Ohio State University