find usage

[Neil Watson]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:59:27AM -0500, Kihara Muriithi wrote:
>    I have always tried below and always got funny response
>   #find  / -name foo.txt

Funny responses should be listed here.   You are probably getting lots
of error listings about permissions if you are not running find as root.
If the install was run 24 hours ago, the command locate might work.  See
the man pages of both.

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