** Reply to message from "Rajko M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:19:47 -0500
> On Tuesday 16 October 2007 10:15:41 am Stan Goodman wrote: > ... > > I did <find -name "mplayer*"> from "/" as root, and turned up nothing > > recognizable. > > It is case sensitive. For instance: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> find /usr/share/doc -name xerces* > /usr/share/doc/packages/xerces-j2 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> find /usr/share/doc -name Xerces* > /usr/share/doc/packages/Xerces-c I'm sure you are right. I am equally sure that I read somewhere that "find" will treat file names as case insensitive. Unfortuntely, I dod not remember where I read that, but if the statement is incorrect, then that source was in error. Thank you for the warning, which I will certainly keep in mind. Insensitivity, actually, would be more logical: if you are searching for something, you probably don't know the case in which its name appeears, and may spend lots of time and frustration in trying permutations of case. But again, one lives with reality. > > Good idea to look with 'find', but you can use as reference: > man hier > it is manual about linux file system hierarchy. It is obviously an important thing for me to peruse. Thank you much for the pointer. > Not everyone respects it, but 99% do, and it is good to know where to start, > as: > find / -name "mplayer* > will scan whole file system, and /usr/share/doc some 260 MB (here). > Whole file system can contain hundreds of GB, have mounted USB external > drives > and network mounts that can be huge. As they say, "Size counts". Fortunately, I have a only single 80GB drive. > -- > Regards, > Rajko. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel There was once a young man who, in his youth, professed his desire to become one of the world's great writers. When asked to define "great" he said, "I want to write stuff that the whole world will read, stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level, stuff that will make them scream, cry, howl in pain and anger!" He now works for Microsoft, writing error messages. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
