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 as I know, find has many more options than locate (eg to search from the parent directory to a specified depth) - I remember reading about it somewhere.
On 8/6/07, norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 using Mthtv. So, I went to Places -> Search for files, > entered *.lck and the report was no files found. Yet there had to be at > least one file which was causing me the problem. Eventually, after much > research I found two files in a folder on my desktop. > > Surely, Search for places should have found these or am I not using the > utility correctly? > > Norman > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ > -- Josh Blacker http://jerichokb.wordpress.com/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
