On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 10:42:19AM -0700, Eliana wrote: > What operating system are you using? If it is a Linux system, you would use > ls -alt .muttdebug* to list the mutt debug files from the command line. And > need to do it from the command line, a file viewer will not detect the files, > unless you possibly symlink to them with non-dot.file names. > > You have to put the dot at the start of the file names, those are part of the > file names, that make the files not seen in general file searches unless you > take special steps to make sure they are listed. > > Eliana > > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 10:29:20AM -0500, Russell Urquhart wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have looked all over my drive but i can't find this file. I compiled mutt > > with the -debug option, is there some additional parameters i should have > > compiled with to get this file to appear? >>> End of included message <<<
If on Linux/UNIX, a good and fast way to search is the "locate" command. It is in the "mlocate" package on my Fedora system. You could do $ locate '*muttdebug*' and it will find any file with that string in the name, even "hidden" dot-files. You may have to run locate as root if you think the file could be in a directory you can't normally access. Note, locate uses a database/index that is only updated periodically, typically daily. So it will not find a file you recently created. To manually update the DB run as root "updatedb". But it will take a while to complete. jon -- Jon H. LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (609) 477-8330 (C)
