[ubuntu-uk] find a file

[Matthew Wild]

gnome-find can be installed with Synaptic, or by typing in the Terminal:
sudo apt-get gnome-find

On 8/6/07, Jim Kissel <jlk at osml.eu> wrote:
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>
>
> 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 <norman at littletank.org> 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
> >>>
> >>>
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> >>
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> >>
> >
> >
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