I need some UNIX help -- how to search subdirectories for files?
 

can't I do something like

ls findthisfile.blah -R

i't not working... :(

find / -name whatever* -print

there's a better way but

find / |grep filename.txt

does the job or find ./ |grep filename.txt
if you want to search from a specific dir up..

It's something like find -iname

or something like that been awhile.

or you can try

locate filename
or
whereis filename

ls -R |grep findthistext

looks like I figurd it on my own tnx for nothing hehe

find -type f -iname filename

Edit: varies slightly from distro to distro.

SpaceAce

which *file

that works sometimes if you're looking for an app.

I'd suggest either the ls -R |grep filename or find . -name "filename*" -print