Re: dir /s *.* equivalent for unix.

["Steve Lamb" <morpheus@calweb.com>]

On Mon, 06 Jul 1998 20:19:36 -0700, Christopher Barry wrote:

>I just keeping getting all these lovely questions for you. At a console,
>if I want to search for a file or any files with a certain extension in
>the current directory and all sub directories and list them, what's the
>best way to do this? The equivalent in DOS would be "dir /s *.whatever"
>but this doesn't work with ls like "ls -R *.deb", for instance. I can do
>"ls -R | more" and then use more's search ability but this is getting
>tiring. Man page isn't too helpful either.

    ls -R | grep file_to_find

    OR...

    find . -name file_to_find

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