Isn't this what locate does? assuming the db is up to date, and if it isn't sudo updatedb locate somefile.txt
Thanks, Alex On 02/24/2012 01:05 PM, Chris Jenks wrote: > > Dear Bruce, > > I expect that your question has been satisfied already, but one general > fast strategy I use to find files (though I expect there are others as > fast) is to create a text file of my full file system by executing: > > sudo find> dir.txt > > in my root directory (/) from a command shell. This creates a text file > with all the files in my file system (of the main system drive), at least > as of that time, and I can then use grep to locate file names without > having to actually search the entire system, which would take much longer. > I like this strategy because of its simplicity and availability from the > command line, which I use often. > > Yours, > > Chris > > On Thu, 23 Feb 2012, Bruce Wolk wrote: > >> I am trying to find the location of an executable file named >> mkvirtualenv. If I run "locate mkvirtualenv" it does not find it. If I >> run "sudo find . -name mkvirtualenv" from the root directory it does not >> find it. "which mkvirtualenv" yields nothing. But if I type mkvi<tab>, >> bash completion completes it and it will execute from any directory. >> Can someone explain to me what is going on? I am using Ubuntu 10.04. >> Thanks. >> >> Bruce Wolk >> _______________________________________________ >> vox-tech mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech >> > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
