From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Nov 20 02:41:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA15359 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 02:41:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from staff.cs.usyd.edu.au (staff.cs.usyd.edu.au [129.78.8.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA15353 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 02:41:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mhenry@white.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au) Message-Id: <199811201041.CAA15353@hub.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Find and an editor To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 21:40:48 +1000 (EST) From: "Michael Henry" In-Reply-To: <006801be1457$5732f460$0a00000a@pdc.frmt1.sfba.home.com> from "Paul" at Nov 19, 98 11:28:00 pm Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Found this address in the newsgroups. I have 2.2.7 and X working fine. = > If only i could get find to search through multiple directories and find = > an X editor to edit the important files, I am sure I could go a lot = > farther. Try "man -k edit". You'll get some irrelevant programs, but it should give you what you want. You don't have to search through the whole directory structure. Editors are most likely to be in /usr/bin, /usr/X11R6/bin (X editors), or /usr/local/bin. > When I try to use "find sysinstall" for example, it searches only the = > current directory. I have since found /stand/sysinstall, but there are = > many other files I need to "find". I'm not a power user of "find", but I often do searches like this: find . -name -print The "." means "the current directory" (and all subdirectories). You can use any directory here (You might want to use "/" or "/usr"). "filename" can be a complete filename (like sysinstall) or a regular expression ('*install'). (Just be sure you put it in single quotes so the shell won't mess it up). > I also would like a stable X based file editor. Please do not point me = > to "vi". I admit I am coming from Microsoft. Try Nedit. It's in the packages. > If you have a moment, I would also like some hints on how to handle the = > fact that the rest of the "world" expects us to be able to deal with the = > "Word" and "Excel" files that get sent to us, if we go completely = > FreeBSD. Unfortunately, you'll have to keep windows around if you want to work with these. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message