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 Lines: 19 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 -- Harold Bamford, AT&T Bell Labs IHP 2F-524 (312) 416-7397 ihnp4!ihlpg!bamford