[ale] alias? or script?

[Geoffrey]

You can do this in ksh with a function in your .env file as follows:

function findit {
	find / -name $1 -print
}

You then use it as follows:

findit foo

A couple of things here, first it works for only one argument, you 
assignment is to make if work for multiple arguments.

As someone else noted, locate would be faster, but then you could write 
a function that does the following:

locate foo || find foo

pseudo coded, but you get the point.



Stephen Turner wrote:
> hey say i wanted to do something like, 'find gzip /' i think thats the
> order, anyways just as an example :-p but i wanted to like change the
> word, find to search or what ever, some other word or letter combination
> :-p do i do that in alias? or a script? like can i just say " alias search
> = find" and everytime i type search it use the find command instead?
> 
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