Finding and Examining Files for BSD 4.3 System Managers

AIX supports the following 4.3 BSD file commands:

• which
• whereis
• what
• file

AIX does not support the 4.3 BSD fast find syntax of the find command. At this time, there is no replacement function. The following ffind shell script may be used to simulate the functionality:

#!/bin/bsh 
PATH=/bin 
for dir in /bin /etc /lib /usr 
do 
find $dir -print | egrep $1 
done

The syntax for the ffind script is:

ffind FileName