[ubuntu-uk] find a file

[Farran Lee]

aah... thanks - but that one keeps crashing on me! it dies when the
results come up

On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 11:36 +0100, Matthew Wild wrote:
> 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:
>         
>         
>         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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>         >>>
>         >>
>         >> --
>         >> Josh Blacker
>         >> http://jerichokb.wordpress.com/
>         >>
>         >
>         >
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