"find" and "locate" commands not working, linux RH5.2
Nate Eldredge
> and i find locate just useless; it's not as versatile as find.
It is a lot faster, though. :)
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Coy A Hile
> I'm a newbee to UNIX and LINUX. I installed REDHAT 5.2 on a 486 PC
>which also has win3.1. I'm booting to LINUX using LILO, REDHAT's multi-
>os boot program. Most of everything is set up and working, however, I
>cant get either the "find" or " locate" commands to work.
> From the command line and logged on as root I enter (find / any-name)
the correct syntax is
find / -name anyname
and i find locate just useless; it's not as versatile as find.
Coy
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John Doherty
| I cant get either the "find" or " locate" commands to work.
I don't know about locate, but if you can't get find to work, you're
probably just using it wrong. find works fine. locate probably works
fine, too, I'm just not familiar with it.
| From the command line and logged on as root I enter (find / any-name)
That's not the right way to use find. For starters, enter the command
"find / -name \* -print" and see what happens: you should get a list
of lots of files written to standard output. Assuming you do, find is
probably working just fine. Read the man page for more information.
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J. Horacio
> >which also has win3.1. I'm booting to LINUX using LILO, REDHAT's multi-
> find / -name anyname
Or better still
find / -iname anyname >/tmp/newfile
^(case insensitive)
the output of find can be very large, so you'll see it passing by your
screen fast. It's a good thing to print it to a file.
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Brian Scanlan
> hi...@cse.psu.edu (Coy A Hile) writes:
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Yes, this is the sole purpose of locate. It's quick.
It's not overly versitile, but I don't want it to be.
I like being able to find files according to name.
Find is not an option on a multiuser server.
Slocate should be used, rather than locate, btw.
Brian
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