I've always used locate by doing:
sudo updatedb
locate *.ick
This can cause problems though as it will trawl everyones files.
updatedb sometimes takes a little while to run, but then locate is
very quick afterwards.
On 06/08/07, Jim Kissel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Neil Greenwood wrote:
On
Although I have used Ubuntu for quite some time I have never been sure
how to go about finding named files. I am not a Linux person although, I
can use a terminal if needed. For example I needed to find any files
with .lck as the extension and remove them otherwise I would be unable
to burn DVDs
There are the two commands 'find' and 'locate' from the command line.
One is slower because it literally trawls the system to find things,
and the other works from a database that's updated every so often - so
it can miss newer files. (I think find is the faster one, but I could
be wrong) As far
is there a graphic front end to either of these?
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 10:50 +0100, Josh Blacker wrote:
There are the two commands 'find' and 'locate' from the command line.
One is slower because it literally trawls the system to find things,
and the other works from a database that's updated
Josh Blacker wrote:
There are the two commands 'find' and 'locate' from the command line.
One is slower because it literally trawls the system to find things,
and the other works from a database that's updated every so often - so
it can miss newer files. (I think find is the faster one, but
Farran Lee wrote:
is there a graphic front end to either of these?
Yes, gnome-find
http://gnome-find.sourceforge.net/
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 10:50 +0100, Josh Blacker wrote:
There are the two commands 'find' and 'locate' from the command line.
One is slower because it literally trawls
gnome-find can be installed with Synaptic, or by typing in the Terminal:
sudo apt-get gnome-find
On 8/6/07, Jim Kissel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Farran Lee wrote:
is there a graphic front end to either of these?
Yes, gnome-find
http://gnome-find.sourceforge.net/
On Mon, 2007-08-06
aah... thanks - but that one keeps crashing on me! it dies when the
results come up
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 11:36 +0100, Matthew Wild wrote:
gnome-find can be installed with Synaptic, or by typing in the
Terminal: sudo apt-get gnome-find
On 8/6/07, Jim Kissel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can use:
find / -name *.lck
but this will probably throw up a lot of useless stuff. I searched
'find / -name *.sla' and got:
find: /lost+found: Permission denied
find: /etc/ssl/private: Permission denied
find: /etc/cups/ssl: Permission denied
find: /var/lib/slocate: Permission denied
find:
) Europe/London
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] find a file
You can use:
find / -name *.lck
but this will probably throw up a lot of useless stuff. I searched
'find / -name *.sla' and got:
find: /lost+found: Permission denied
find: /etc/ssl/private: Permission denied
find: /etc/cups/ssl: Permission denied
I do wish find didn't do that :)
You can strip the error output by appending 2/dev/null to the end of the
command. I don't know if there is another way... I never found it.
On 8/6/07, Josh Blacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can use:
find / -name *.lck
but this will probably throw up a
-prune will work too.
Cheers m88
On 8/6/07, Matthew Wild [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I do wish find didn't do that :)
You can strip the error output by appending 2/dev/null to the end of the
command. I don't know if there is another way... I never found it.
On 8/6/07, Josh Blacker [EMAIL
@lists.ubuntu.com
Sent: 06 August 2007 12:07:13 o'clock (GMT) Europe/London
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] find a file
You can use:
find / -name *.lck
but this will probably throw up a lot of useless stuff. I searched
'find / -name *.sla' and got:
find: /lost+found: Permission denied
find: /etc
norman wrote:
snip
Josh Blacker wrote:
There are the two commands 'find' and 'locate' from the command line.
One is slower because it literally trawls the system to find things,
and the other works from a database that's updated every so often - so
it can miss newer files. (I think find
On 06/08/07, Jim Kissel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
find /your/path/to/a/directory -name '*.lck' -print
Find trawls the files system but appears to cache when re-run with a
short (hours) time. I've ever used locate. It has a db where it
'locates' files. BTY, if you are using find on
On 06/08/07, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks to all who have had a go at answering my question. However, am I
to understand that I need to know where I might find the file I am
seeking before I go looking? If that is the case then it defeats what I
thought was the idea. What I was
Neil Greenwood wrote:
On 06/08/07, Jim Kissel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
find /your/path/to/a/directory -name '*.lck' -print
Find trawls the files system but appears to cache when re-run with a
short (hours) time. I've ever used locate. It has a db where it
'locates' files. BTY, if you
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