[lotuseclat79]

Misplace a file? Find it quick!.

Discusses: whereis, locate and find commands.

There is also the which command to find executables that is not discussed. I must admit, I have never used the (s)locate command, as I am an old hand at using the find command.

My favorite way to use the find command is to use the -exec feature to scan for strings in files that match the scan criteria, for example:

$ find . -name "*.txt" -exec grep -i foo {} \; -print

The above find command starts in the current directory '.', matches on any file named with the .txt suffix, and then executes the grep command, case insensitive (-i) to look for the character string "foo" in each located .txt file, and lastly prints the results of the grep on the located files only.

Don't know what grep does? Issue the command: man grep

-- Tom

[TRS-80 vet]

Mods; make a sticky

[bearone2]

gees, i just use "search".

i don't find it necessary to reinvent the wheel.

[lotuseclat79]

Originally Posted by bearone2

gees, i just use "search".

i don't find it necessary to reinvent the wheel.

Hi bearone2,

Looks like you are using the reinvented wheel as find was there first!

I use Ubuntu 7.10, Gutsy Gibbon's Live CD, and search is not a normally installed command as far as I know in Linux.

What release of Linux are you using that has a search command installed?

"search" is not a standard command in either Unix or Linux - are you talking about searchmonkey that is aimed at replacing find/grep tools?

-- Tom

[bearone2]

check my sig

[prunejuice]

Originally Posted by bearone2

check my sig

What should we be looking for? I don't get it...

[bearone2]

do you see linux on any of the machnes in my sig/list of equipment? i didn't see "linux" in the header when i initially replied.

[RootbeaR]

Originally Posted by lotuseclat79

What release of Linux are you using that has a search command installed?

"search" is not a standard command in either Unix or Linux - are you talking about searchmonkey that is aimed at replacing find/grep tools?

-- Tom

PCLOS has a Find feature under its main menu listed under actions. Breaks it down from there to Find Files or Web Search.

[RootbeaR]

Meant to attach these.

[lotuseclat79]

bearone2,

This is a Linux forum. You can get more traction by posting your non-sequiturs in the Windows forums - duh!

-- Tom

[bearone2]

Originally Posted by lotuseclat79

bearone2,

This is a Linux forum. You can get more traction by posting your non-sequiturs in the Windows forums - duh!

-- Tom

yo buckwheat.

did you happen to read my statement in post #7? probably not huh? non-sequiturs...a parable, what are you trying to say?

[veribaka]

Flame fest starting? Didn't see that one coming around here! However I have to agree with lotuseclat79, we're talking about a linux tool, why would that be reinventing a windows tool?

Settle down before it gets out of hand.

[lotuseclat79]

Cool yer jets verbaka, nothing is getting out of hand - just sit back and relax.

bearone2 uses a Google toolbar to index his files in order to search for his lost Windows files, and thus opens up his computer (once it gets compromised) to the bad guys finding what they want real easy like. In that case, the last laugh will be not be bearone2's.

-- Tom

[bearone2]

Originally Posted by lotuseclat79

Cool yer jets verbaka, nothing is getting out of hand - just sit back and relax.

bearone2 uses a Google toolbar to index his files in order to search for his lost Windows files, and thus opens up his computer (once it gets compromised) to the bad guys finding what they want real easy like. In that case, the last laugh will be not be bearone2's.

-- Tom

what drug's are you using?

google toolbar?????where did you come up with that assumption??? to "find".....

who are these bad guys who will gain access....the tooth fairy and co or something more obscure.

please enlighten me.

[lotuseclat79]

Check out your signature bearone2 or should I say 'google tool bar boy'!

-- Tom