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 >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk >>> https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ >>> >> >> -- >> Josh Blacker >> http://jerichokb.wordpress.com/ >> > > -- Simple effective migration to Open Source based computing Jim Kissel Open Source Migrations Limited w: http://www.osml.eu e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: +44(0) 8703 301044 m: +44(0) 7976 411 679 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
