[Cialug] Help finding file?

Todd Walton tdwalton at gmail.com
Mon Jan 2 15:50:38 CST 2012


On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Tom Sellers <tomsellers2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> What is the Ubuntu linux command to locate a file anywhere on the disk?  I
> need to have it search the whole directory structure not just the current
> directory for the file.

'slocate' (or just 'locate').  You'll have to be root to literally
search the entire filesystem.

--
Todd


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