Find file

[Erik Christiansen]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 01:42:13AM -0700, buters wrote:
> 
> but with "sudo updatedb locate -i file" as with "sudo locate -i file" the
> system hasn't found it.

If you've run "sudo updatedb", and then "locate -i file", after the
update has completed, then it pretty much has to show up, if it's there.
Since "find / file" didn't find it either, then "file" is not there. In
my experience this heart attack inducing phenomenon is most often due to
mistaking the filename.

In that case, "locate -i xxxx", where xxx = longest part of the
filename which one can be certain of, usually winkles it out. As a last
resort, a suffix alone will show all files of that type. Redirection of
output to a file may then make snuffling around the long list less
tiresome. Alternatively, pipe to
grep -v any_directory_with_lots_of_unwanted_hits

Happy hunting,

Erik