general Unix search question (not DS)

[datastage]

Can someone remind me how to search for files in Unix and have it search all directories below the current directory? If I want to find wurlod.dat but don't know where it is stored and I am in directory 'A' which has directiries 'B', 'C', and 'D'..and 'D' has 'E', I want to search A thru E for wurlod.dat

HPUX if it matters

Thanks,

[tonystark622]

Hi Byron,

I think you can do:

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find <starting directory> -name <filename> -print

So, it would look something like this:

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find . -name wurlod.dat -print

if you're already in directory A

Hope this helps,
Tony

[datastage]

Thanks for your help


for some reason I always want to use ls thinking there should be a flag for that command to search through directories.