norman wrote: > < snip > >> 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. >> find /your/path/to/a/directory -name '*.lck' -print >> >> Find trawls the files system but appears to cache when re-run with a >> short (hours) time. I've ever used locate. It has a db where it >> 'locates' files. BTY, if you are using find on directories that you >> don't "own", you may need to sudo find has the errors it produces when >> it doesn't have permission to read a directory can overwhelm the actual >> output of any search. > > Thanks to all who have had a go at answering my question. However, am I > to understand that I need to know where I might find the file I am > seeking before I go looking? If that is the case then it defeats what I > thought was the idea. What I was looking for was a > command which would tell the computer to search every folder on my > system.
sudo find / -name '*.lck' -print .............. will search all mounted file systems for files that end in .lnk The single quote characters around *.lck are necessary. Without them, the shell will try to expand *.lck in the current working directory and then use that in the context of find. Someone suggested: find / -name *.lck try typing ls *.lck to see what arguments are going to be passed to find sudo "find / -name *.lck" won't work. You just get sudo .......: command not found. Bash: Ubuntu: 7.04 > > Norman > > -- 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/
