[Cialug] Help finding file?

[Nathaniel Petersen]

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Josh More <jmore at starmind.org> wrote:

> It's worth noting that, while "find" is on every *nix system I've
> used, "find -iname" is not.  I believe that that that option, like
> "grep -i" is a GNU extension.
>
> Just so people aren't surprised when things fail on that HPUX box that
> they're suddenly required to administer.
>
> -Josh


This is also true on Solaris boxes.  I find that basic pattern expressions
work well in most *nix systems.  This allows you to supply the upper and
lower case for what you are searching for like so:

Example:

cthulu at rlyeh:/tmp> ls
JDK_6u16       o27438029.out  test.OuT       test.OUT       test.t
cthulu at rlyeh:/tmp> find . -name \*\.[Oo][Uu][Tt]\*
./o27438029.out
./test.OuT
./test.OUT


I find, though, that the GNU-based find utilities are exceptionally useful.
 So, for myself, I include the CSWfindutils package on all my Solaris
installs.  This provides me with /opt/csw/bin/gfind
and /opt/csw/bin/glocate.

-Nick

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Don Ellis <don.ellis at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I haven't found a distro (including MacOSX) that doesn't have the find
> > command. And, on my Mac, I've been so disappointed with the new
> > version of 'Find File' (Spotlight) that I'm more likely to go to a
> > command line and use find to locate the file I want.
> >
> > --Don Ellis
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Barry Von Ahsen <barry at vonahsen.com>
> wrote:
> >> which version of ubuntu?  if it's new-ish, I thought unity had it built
> >> in (like on macs).  my debian box with gnome3 has it built in, the same
> >> thing that searches for programs also searches for files (hit the
> >> windows/super key, then start typing)
> >>
> >>
> >> -barry
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 01/02/2012 03:37 PM, Tom Sellers 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.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> If I use find by itself it lists all directory items but it I list the
> file name after the find command it only seems to search the local
> directory and tells me that it is not there.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Surely there is a command to do this.  I just haven't been able to
> find it.
> >>>
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