Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote:
> And though it's not a unixy question type list, for those unix noobs 
> that want or need to find a file that's located somewhere in the 
> system but you have no idea where, type "cd /", then "find . -name 
> <filename> -print".  This command, with it's qualifiers, starts 
> looking in your current working directory, and recursively searches 
> through each subdirectory for the file in question.

On a well-functioning Ubuntu system, you should be able to get much 
quicker results from "locate <filename>".


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Sebastian Kuzminsky
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