Thanks all, prompt advice as always, has got me on the way out of another
hole of my own making! :-)
On Mon, November 22, 2004 12:43 pm, Erik de Castro Lopo said:
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:30:29 +1100 (EST)
Simon Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
If I just want to 'find' or 'locate' a file
A quick and dirty reply (using the locate database)
export lookfile=gcc;locate $lookfile | grep -e .*/$lookfile$
This will find the file gcc (only). .*/ is greedy and should eat up
all directory names up to the last /
Of course Jill's find solution will look at the running filesystem
whereas
This one time, at band camp, Simon Bryan wrote:
Hi,
If I just want to 'find' or 'locate' a file called xyz rather than all
directories and filenames that contain that string what would I enter at
the command line?
find / -type f -name xyz
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