Find file

[buters]

Thank you Erik very much,

but with "sudo updatedb locate -i file" as with "sudo locate -i file" the
system hasn't found it.

Best Regards, buters.


Erik Christiansen-2 wrote:
> 
> 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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