aah... thanks - but that one keeps crashing on me! it dies when the results come up
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 11:36 +0100, Matthew Wild wrote: > gnome-find can be installed with Synaptic, or by typing in the > Terminal: sudo apt-get gnome-find > > On 8/6/07, Jim Kissel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Farran Lee wrote: > > is there a graphic front end to either of these? > > > > Yes, gnome-find > http://gnome-find.sourceforge.net/ > > > > > 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/ > >> > > > > > > -- > Simple effective migration to Open Source based computing > > Jim Kissel > Open Source Migrations Limited > w: http://www.osml.eu > e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > p: +44(0) 8703 301044 > m: +44(0) 7976 411 679 > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ > -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
