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The program 'ffind' is what I use to search for files on my hard drive. You can fetch it from
www.pmoylan.org/pages/os2/software.html
or from
ftp://ftp.pmoylan.org/software/ffind_1.0.zip
or from Hobbes.

This is a command-line utility that allows wildcards in specifying the files to search for. The output is a list of files (with full path names, of course) that satisfy the search criterion. Optionally, you can specify that the files must contain a given character string.

Example 1: ffind c:\*.prj
Example 2: ffind d:\dev*\*\src\progname.* 'fresh fish'

The first example searches all of drive C: for files named *.prj. The second example searches all directories matching the pattern d:\dev*\*\src, and all subdirectories of those directories, for files progname.* that contain the character string 'fresh fish'.

Source code is included.

-- Peter Moylan peter@pmoylan.org
www.pmoylan.org