How does searching a file system in Solaris work?

[Jumpem]

I have a C++ program that includes some .h files I am not familiar with. How do I perform a search that will look in the folders preceding the current one and find file X if it exists?

thanks!

Edit: i figured out how to do it using "find". But it literally took a few minutes to give me a result. Is there anything that does it quicker?

 

[TGS]

when you run the find, make sure you are just searching the directory you need the results from. What is the string you are running?

 

[Jumpem]

Originally posted by: TGS
when you run the find, make sure you are just searching the directory you need the results from. What is the string you are running?

I am using "find /home/A/B/C/D -name filename.h". "/home/A/B/C/D" is the base directory that all the files have in common.

 

[n0cmonkey]

The string looks fine. Getting it to search up the tree isn't possible, as far as I'm aware. I have to admit though, I haven't read the MANPAGE in a long time.

 

[Nothinman]

Edit: i figured out how to do it using "find". But it literally took a few minutes to give me a result. Is there anything that does it quicker?

Successive finds will be quicker as everything will be cached.