> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 2:26 PM, betty <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am using l-ubuntu 12.04 with the pcMan manager and i can't for the life >> of me find the way to 'find' a file or something with part of a file name >> in it. it is driving me crazy. What am i missing??? From: Michael Havens <[email protected]> > try apropos part-of-file-name
apropos is equivalent to "man -k" and is only for searching man pages. I think that what betty wants is "locate", as in "locate \*some string\*" should give you a list of files whose names contain the string "some string". NOTE: This only works if your distro runs updatedb every so often. Most distros are set up so that updatedb indexes all files once a day at roughly 4am. Check /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db ; if that file exists and is reasonably large, your distro is running updatedb every so often. There are some GUI-fied interfaces to locate too. Not sure what they are, since I'm a command-line sort of person. -- Matt G / Dances With Crows The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
