is there a graphic front end to either of these?
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 10:50 +0100, Josh Blacker wrote: > There are the two commands 'find' and 'locate' from the command line. > One is slower because it literally trawls the system to find things, > and the other works from a database that's updated every so often - so > it can miss newer files. (I think find is the faster one, but I could > be wrong) As far as I know, find has many more options than locate (eg > to search from the parent directory to a specified depth) - I remember > reading about it somewhere. > > On 8/6/07, norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Although I have used Ubuntu for quite some time I have never been sure > > how to go about finding named files. I am not a Linux person although, I > > can use a terminal if needed. For example I needed to find any files > > with .lck as the extension and remove them otherwise I would be unable > > to burn DVDs using Mthtv. So, I went to Places -> Search for files, > > entered *.lck and the report was no files found. Yet there had to be at > > least one file which was causing me the problem. Eventually, after much > > research I found two files in a folder on my desktop. > > > > Surely, Search for places should have found these or am I not using the > > utility correctly? > > > > Norman > > > > > > -- > > [email protected] > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ > > > > > -- > Josh Blacker > http://jerichokb.wordpress.com/ > -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
