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in mac terminal, how to find a file in the current directory or subdirectories?

the filename is: 'something.py'

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find . -name something.py

(the '.' specifies the current directory).

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Find is a good choice for any unix platform. If you want something OS X specific, try mdfind, which is basically the CLI version of Spotlight. – churnd Jun 28 '10 at 3:16
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