Also look at: man locate man which man whereis Take care, Sina -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Glenn at home Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 7:32 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: Linux question I have been reading the man pages: man find and man dir and I cannot figure out how to search all subdirectories for a file or folder. I am trying to make folders and change welcome.msg on the FTP server. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Luke Yelavich" <themuso@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Glenn at home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>; "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 6:27 PM Subject: Re: Linux question On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 10:42:13AM EST, Glenn at home wrote: > How do I find files or folders globally? > I assume I need to be at the top of the directory, i.e., at slash. find / -name your-filename.here Read the find man page for more info. Luke _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup