question about locate

[adams]

On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 16:38 -0600, Oscar Farfán wrote:
> Hello there
> 
> I'm triying to locate a document in my computer but I can't use locate....
> 
> can anyone help me please
> 

The program to use is "find" IMHO.

If it is outside your files under /home/username:

sudo find / -name filename


if it is in your directory space


find /home/username -name  filename


Hope this helps.



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