Re: Find all .desktop files in my system – failed

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Sat Nov 10 21:21:21 UTC 2012


On 10 November 2012 08:59, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here (I am a beginner too, since a
> few years back…), but obviously I misunderstood the find command
> completely:
> ~$ sudo find / -iname *.desktop 2>/dev/null
> /home/guraknugen/examples.desktop
> /home/video/examples.desktop
> /etc/skel/examples.desktop
> ~$

You can also try
locate .desktop

Colin




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