Probably stupid question

Probably stupid question

[Tom Masterson]

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I am trying to find one or more files in an unknown directory.  The question is what command can I use to do this.  I know some files with the given extension exist but I need to know if there are more in a different location and so far I haven't found any command that will tell me this.

Tom

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Re: Probably stupid question

[Mario Lang]

man find

"Tom Masterson" <kd7cyu@yahoo.com> writes:

> I am trying to find one or more files in an unknown directory.  The question is what command can I use to do this.  I know some files with the given extension exist but I need to know if there are more in a different location and so far I haven't found any command that will tell me this.
>
> Tom

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Re: Probably stupid question

[Mariusz Madej]

Friday, 12 December 2003,  9:16:06 -0800, Tom Masterson wrote:

[There are no stupid questions.]

> I am trying to find one or more files in an unknown directory.  The question is what command can I use to do this.  I know some files with the given extension exist but I need to know if there are more in a different location and so far I haven't found any command that will tell me this.

Have you tried "find <main_directory> -iname '*.<extension>' "? 

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Re: Probably stupid question

[A. R. Vener]

Try the locate command.

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On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 09:16:06AM -0800, Tom Masterson wrote:

> 
>    I am trying to find one or more files in an unknown directory.  The
>    question is what command can I use to do this.  I know some files with
>    the given extension exist but I need to know if there are more in a
>    different location and so far I haven't found any command that will
>    tell me this.
> 
> 
> 
>    Tom

Re: Probably stupid question

[Rafael Skodlar]

Hi Tom,


The following assumes you do know which tree the "unknown directory"
is under.

find /somedir -name filename -ls

or

find /somedir -name filename -print

to get two different ways of file or directory information.

It should be easy to find a file unless your system is a mess of
directories.

Some people sugested to use locate but that won't show files created
after a utility slocate is run by a cron job. Of course you can run
slocate manualy to update the database before using locate.


On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 09:16:06AM -0800, Tom Masterson wrote:
> I am trying to find one or more files in an unknown directory.  The question is what command can I use to do this.  I know some files with the given extension exist but I need to know if there are more in a different location and so far I haven't found any command that will tell me this.
> 
> Tom
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Re: Probably stupid question

[Lorenzo Prince]

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Re: Probably stupid question

[Tom Masterson]

The correct find command did it.

THanks too all for the help.

Tom
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
To: "Tom Masterson" <kd7cyu@yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 16:05
Subject: Re: Probably stupid question


> ls *.ext where ext is the file extension.
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