Posted by Robert Cummings on 09/26/97 11:32

On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 13:02, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:
> John Taylor-Johnston wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I want to echo the location of "head.jpg" hidden in some deep dark
> > recess of my server, unbeknownst to me.
> > Which shell command do I use? How do I echo it?
> > John
> >
>
> While this isn't really a PHP question...
>
> On my machine, the following would work. I can't speak for your machine,
> though.
>
> cd /; find -name head.jpg

Under linux:

locate head.jpg

This is better than find usually since the filesystem is usually indexed
nightly making lookup fast. If you just added the file though... you'll
need to use the aforementioned method :)

Cheers,
Rob.
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