Dear Bruce, I expect that your question has been satisfied already, but one general fast strategy I use to find files (though I expect there are others as fast) is to create a text file of my full file system by executing:
sudo find > dir.txt in my root directory (/) from a command shell. This creates a text file with all the files in my file system (of the main system drive), at least as of that time, and I can then use grep to locate file names without having to actually search the entire system, which would take much longer. I like this strategy because of its simplicity and availability from the command line, which I use often. Yours, Chris On Thu, 23 Feb 2012, Bruce Wolk wrote: > I am trying to find the location of an executable file named > mkvirtualenv. If I run "locate mkvirtualenv" it does not find it. If I > run "sudo find . -name mkvirtualenv" from the root directory it does not > find it. "which mkvirtualenv" yields nothing. But if I type mkvi<tab>, > bash completion completes it and it will execute from any directory. > Can someone explain to me what is going on? I am using Ubuntu 10.04. > Thanks. > > Bruce Wolk > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech