In unix, how do you search by file name in all subdirectories?

[wildwildwes]

What is the unix command that is equivalent to dir /s in dos? I'm using FreeBSD.

ls -R works to list subdirectories, but when I try to add a file name to search for, it only searches the current directory.

Thanks

 

[jhu]

find / -path '*libc*'

that searches everywhere for any file that has 'libc' in its filename

 

[n0cmonkey]

"man find"
"man locate"
"man which"

All three would help quite a bit. I use find daily, locate every couple of days and which I used to use hourly.

EDIT: "find . -name "mystuff*" -print" will find everything starting in the current directory named mystuff*.

 

[wildwildwes]

Excellent. Thanks guys.

 

[GreenGhost]

You can also use ls -R and then pipe ( | ) the results into grep to search for the file name. There are always a zillion ways of doing things. (I never liked the 'find' command, for some odd reason)

 

[miguel]

<< You can also use ls -R and then pipe ( | ) the results into grep to search for the file name. There are always a zillion ways of doing things. (I never liked the 'find' command, for some odd reason) >>



Yeah, but you won't know which directory it's in.