On Nov 3, 2008, at 7:05 AM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > 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>".
However, locate runs off a database. Normally cron runs a job called updatedb , maybe once a day, which does just that. If you have a file that is too new to have hit the update then manually run updatedb and then use locate. HTH Dave > > > -- > Sebastian Kuzminsky > what i like best about 12648430 is the coffee > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win > great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in > the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
