I know newbies are often at a loss as exactly what tools are available to
them, so here are a couple tools that make my life easier everyday that i
would have loved to know about as a newbie.
"locate" tells you where the file you want is (similar to find). what
makes it so cool is that it searches a database, not the actual disk(s).
this means it is fast, instantaneous for me actually :) The only problem
though is that that database gets out of date with where your files
actually are as you move/delete files. To update the databaes, run
"updatedb". I have a cron job set up to run that several times throughout
the day so it is automatically in sync. "man locate" for specifics.
A similar command is "whereis" which locates specifically binaries, man
pages and source files, by looking i belive in your paths and some common
directories where these are kept.
of course, if you need a more sophisticated and powerful search, "find"
is your friend, but the man page will do much better explaining it than i
can.
happy file finding.
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Joshua W. H. Steiner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://eds.org/~joschi
"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentyful, is the
basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more
stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the
universe."
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