Re: Unix Command Help

  • From: "qubit" <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:54:14 -0500

glad to help.
The find command is a weird command because of it's unusual syntax, but it 
is very useful.
Happy hacking.
--le

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Berwick" <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: Unix Command Help


Thank you for this.  It took a long time but, I have now found my 
files...I'll try to keep better track of them in the future...Never thought 
I'd misplace hundreds of files like that and not be able to find them.
Jeff

On 2010-08-19, at 10:26 AM, qubit wrote:

> That's easy -- check out the man page for the find command -- it has an
> unusual, but simple syntax.  To find your files type
>
> find rootdirname -name index.php -print
> HTH
> --le
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jeff Berwick" <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 8:57 AM
> Subject: Unix Command Help
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> In Windows/DOS, I would use a command like:
>
> dir index.php /s
>
> To search my hard drive to find all files named index.php.  I am trying to
> do this on my Mac in terminal as I have misplaced my website files which 
> are
> in the terminal - not in the Mac file system.  Not sure why they don't 
> show
> up in the Mac side of things but, can anybody provide me a Unix command to
> perform this type of search?
>
> Thx,
> Jeff
>
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