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6.1.7.2 find Procedure

Search for files whose names match pattern (using shell wildcard characters for filename expansion). Search subdirectories recursively, starting at rootdir. The result is the list of files whose names match; if no files match, the result is empty. Filenames in the result include all intervening subdirectory names. If no files match the pattern, then a NULL string is returned.

find{rootdir pattern}

rootdir

The top level directory to search the search from.

pattern

A csh "glob" style regular expression representing the files to find.