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Re: [~ot] those pesky invisible folders ...
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  • Subject: Re: [~ot] those pesky invisible folders ...
  • From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 13:45:41 -0300

At 6:27 PM +0200 10/8/04, Pierre N wrote:
 2. is there a command-line tool (variation on ls?) that will recursively
    search the file tree for a particular file name? and does _it_ dig
    through places like /private and /usr??

find / -name "some regular expression"


Il will look for a file name everywhere
You should at least be in the admin group to do this, even better as root

Definitely better as root. If the find is as you've given it above and looks at everything from the root of the file system (/) on down, then it makes sense to su to root or you'll get a load of access denied messages filling your terminal window.


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