Glenn at home writes: > 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. find . -name myfile* > I am trying to make folders and change welcome.msg on the FTP server. Well, for "welcome message" on the ftp server, your ftp config file will tell you precisely where that file is. Look at its configuration in /etc. Which file, precisely, depends on the ftp server you're using, of course. The Fedora default is: /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf > Glenn > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Luke Yelavich" <themuso at themuso.com> > 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 -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040 If Linux doesn't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.
