Finding and examining files for BSD 4.3 system managers

The following is a list of the BSD file commands that AIX® supports.

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 can 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