Insomniac said the following on 02/16/2012 09:01 AM:
Hey gang,
I need to find (so I can look through) a bunch of a certain type of files. I tried using the 'find files/folders' thing on the menu, but it didn't help me at all no matter how much info I put in to give it a hand.
You've just described why GUIs are useless. That's what I love about GUIs: They make simple tasks easier, and complex tasks impossible. -- John William Chambless You've hit on a case that matches that!
What I want to find, is *all* and *only* Gzip archive files made during a specific day/date in my /home/me/.mozilla/seamonkey/bliq9n9z.default/Cache/<a whole slew of folders here>/<and here>
I suspect that there are many GUI-wrappers around the real too for this, the command 'find'. There are limited variations on 'find' such as 'locate', which uses a database and so is a LOT faster in the cases where it applies and where the files concerned do not postdate the creation of that database. "find' is extremely powerful and while easy to use in the trivial case is difficult to master. Yours is a non trivial case. If I understand correctly, you are doing a 'find by content' - that its a zip file regardless of the file name/extension. You are going to have to use the "-exec command" option and the command will be something like the 'file' command with a grep to determine if it's a gzip As the above quote indicates, this is way beyond anything envisioned by a GUI designer. -- "The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out." -- JRR Tolkien, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org