RE: find command doesn't work

["Ben Yau" <byau cardcommerce com>]

> 
> 
> On the heals of RH annoucing 7.x and 8.0 is dead, things have been acting
> squirly on my RH 7.1 box:
> 
> Can someone run the find command on a RH 7.1 box?
> 
> # cd /
> # find etc
> 13894
> 
> This should list the file names within the etc directory, instead 
> it returns
> a number of some kind.  My RH 7.3 box lists the files fine.
>

That's strange
do these and let us know the results

# which find
# ls /find
# alias find
# echo $PATH

if `which find` returns /usr/bin/find, then you can also do 

# cd /
# /usr/bin/find etc

or else 

# /usr/bin/find /etc

ben