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 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
>>>
>>>
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>>
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>>
> 
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