It looks like it. I figured there had to be a slightly better way, I've just never been motivated to find one because I can usually get what I want from the find and grep, and because I felt more in-control by using the grep utility I've used a long time than having to learn a new command, simple though it may be.
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012, Alex Mandel wrote: > 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
