Find file

Erik Christiansen dvalin at internode.on.net
Sun Aug 31 07:46:43 UTC 2008


On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 07:55:12AM -0700, buters wrote:
> I'm trying to find a file in my system with "sudo find / -name file", but I
> can not. This is location of a database. With my database client I can
> access this database. How can I find, where it is located? I need it to db
> restart.

Assuming that "can not" means that the find command successfully runs,
but doesn't show the location of the file, there are options, including:

sudo find / -name '*file*'    # In case of an extension or other guff.

or

sudo updatedb
locate -i file

Try just the "locate" command. updatedb may have been run automatically
since the file was added.

Good luck,

Erik




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