On 01/10, rhut...@posteo.de wrote: > I know. But i don't see why i should invest more than 10 minutes into > figuring out how to really "find" that file. Man pages are generally > ridicoulus. Two online pages that i read about it gave me some advice, but > it was incomplete and the commands i tried didn't work - or at least didn't > bring me any result. You might be looking for locate(1) command which is a much faster and simpler alternative to find. I find it much easier to use for just locating files however for more difficult things I do tend to use find (because of the -exec option).
You just use it by typing: "locate foo bar baz" and it will find all instances of files named foo, bar or baz. -- I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. -- William Allen White
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