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I was wnodering how I can search for a file somewhere on my computer using the terminal. Is there a command for it? a script? Or if someone could just ...
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- 11-27-2004 #1Linux Newbie
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Terminal and Searching
I was wnodering how I can search for a file somewhere on my computer using the terminal. Is there a command for it? a script? Or if someone could just tell me where the xmms-config file that would work too
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- 11-27-2004 #2Linux Guru
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Try:
to find the fileCode:find –name filename –print
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- 11-27-2004 #3Linux Newbie
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sweet, I'll give that a try!
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- 11-28-2004 #4Linux User
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Umm, what if you are not sure about the exact name of the file? Like um, if you install java, and you don't know how the directory was created. you know like: j2sdk, java, jdk and others.
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