Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 11:18:38 -0800 From: Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com> To: Rainer M Duffner <Rainer.Duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de>, Paul <paulturner@home.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Find and an editor Message-ID: <199811221930.LAA04821@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Marcel-1.46-1121164303-313Zsav@duffner.konstanz.netsurf.de > References: <006801be1457$5732f460$0a00000a@pdc.frmt1.sfba.home.com>
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At 05:43 PM 11/21/98 +0100, Rainer M Duffner wrote: >On Fri 20 Nov, Paul wrote: >man find >will produce lots of text, which you'll only need at some point in the >future. >Basically, it goes like this: >find / -name file_name -print >will search the complete tree. This will take some time, depending on >the amount of source you have laing around, it will take some minutes >even with a fast SCSI-disk. > >find . -name file_name -print >will search from the current directory downward. > >find /usr/local -name file_name -print >will search /usr/local only. > >You can play with the size/age things later. and if your system has run the /etc/weekly script (normally every Saturday morning at 3:30am), then any files on your filesystem(s) will be listed in the locate database, so you can just do locate file_name and it's much faster than find. --Ludwig Pummer ( ludwigp@bigfoot.com ) ICQ UIN: 692441 ( ludwigp@email.com ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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