Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihlpg!bamford
From: bamford@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Harold E. Bamford)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Finding Files
Message-ID: <4441@ihlpg.ATT.COM>
Date: 9 Dec 87 19:10:28 GMT
References: <205700003@prism>
Reply-To: bamford@ihlpg.UUCP (Harold E. Bamford)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <205700003@prism> billc@prism.UUCP writes:
>
>	Right now, to find a file somewhere under my current directory,
>	I use the following alias:
>
>	    alias	where	"find \$cwd -name \!* -exec echo {} \;"
>
>	Question: Is there a better way to do this?

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

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