From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Mike N. wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:44:18 -0800, Randall Parker
>

> wrote:
>
>> ls -R book*.* doesn't find anything. But I'm not sure if that is because
>> I'm not doing it correctly.
>
>    This is the one part I still haven't figured out - how to do a simple
> dir /s.
>
>    find is supposed to do stuff like this but it doesn't seem to work
> properly either unless you start at the root.
>
>   I've been doing an ls -R | less on the /usr, /var, and /etc tree to make
> the commands run faster, then searching the output in 'less', but it's
> still the long way.
>
>    *ix gurus - any tips?

ls -laR?

wrt Randall's prob

ls book* -R

or

locate book

or

find . -name book* -print

find will find you directories starting with "book

find ./ -type d -name "book*"

I've always tended to avoid winDos cli coz of it's paucity so for me it's
the opposite in that I tend to think how the f*ck do I do this in windos.

but if you & randall have probs I suggest you use alias in a text
file/bashrc etc so you can simply type dir /S or whatever. I tend to alias
"shutdown -h now" to "die".


Adam

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