[ubuntu-uk] find a file

[Josh Blacker]

There are the two commands 'find' and 'locate' from the command line.
One is slower because it literally trawls the system to find things,
and the other works from a database that's updated every so often - so
it can miss newer files. (I think find is the faster one, but I could
be wrong) As far as I know, find has many more options than locate (eg
to search from the parent directory to a specified depth) - I remember
reading about it somewhere.

On 8/6/07, norman <norman at littletank.org> wrote:
> Although I have used Ubuntu for quite some time I have never been sure
> how to go about finding named files. I am not a Linux person although, I
> can use a terminal if needed. For example I needed to find any files
> with .lck as the extension and remove them otherwise I would be unable
> to burn DVDs using Mthtv. So, I went to Places -> Search for files,
> entered *.lck and the report was no files found. Yet there had to be at
> least one file which was causing me the problem. Eventually, after much
> research I found two files in a folder on my desktop.
>
> Surely, Search for places should have found these or am I not using the
> utility correctly?
>
> Norman
>
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