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From: Rafael Skodlar <raffi@linwin.com>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Probably stupid question
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:24:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031212182459.GB12238@linwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <026201c3c0d3$a2045050$0200000a@tom>

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
-- 
Rafael



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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Tom Masterson
 ` Mario Lang
 ` Mariusz Madej
 ` A. R. Vener
 ` Rafael Skodlar [this message]
 ` Lorenzo Prince
     [not found] ` <Pine.BSF.4.58.0312121905220.23368@server2.shellworld.net>
   ` Tom Masterson

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