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ls -R myfile.cgi does not seem to work.

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by aisp

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I'm trying to check if myfile.cgi exists somewhere on the volume. I'm logged (via Telnet) as a superuser and I'm using ls -R myfile.cgi from the root directory. The reply is 'file not found'. The file actually exists in one of the subdirectories, though. So I must be doing something wrong. Please help. Your "vote" is worth 271 points :-)

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by rkeckler2000

The ls command still only searches the present directory for your myfile.cgi. The ls -R command by itself will list everything under it. If you give it a directory name ie.
ls -R DIR_NAME it will list the files on that directory only. You might want to pipe it to more or to a file. Then search the file for you myfile.cgi.

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