On Thursday, February 16, 2012 08:01 Insomniac wrote:
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.
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>
For instance, one will be at /home/me/.mozilla/seamonkey/bliq9n9z.default/Cache/0/00/ and will be named 81858d01. It won't have an extension, but in the 'type' column when using Dolphin it will be a Gzip archive.
A strange thing about those folders too...one could have been created(?) on 13 Feb 2012 yet will contain files that may have dates ranging from a created(again ?) jpg on 27 Jan 2012 to an 'unknown' type of 02 Feb 2012. There can be 2 to 20 files in any one of these folders and each will have a complete mixture of dated files in it and none have an extension other than in the 'type' column, unlike say, in my 'home' folder.
Is there some other way besides trying to use the find files/folders app in the kmenu? A better way? Even a commandline way, so long as someone tells me how and/or what to type is fine, heh.
It seems that that 'find files/folders' app in kmenu actually works. I entered the barest minimum on each tab and it found what I needed. Very strange, as I'm of the opinion also that many gui apps aren't as thorough as a commandling command. This is one time I'm quite happy to have been proved wrong. On the Name/Location tab, I entered nothing in the 'Named' and told it to look in ///home/me and checked 'include subfolders' and 'show hidden files' On the Contents tab, I just had it look for Gzip archive in 'file type' pull down and checked 'include binary files' On the Properties tab, all I did was narrow the 'Find files' to that one day I was looking for and then clicked 'Find' and it did its magic. Thanks all for the suggestions though, but they mostly just confused me pretty badly even trying to read 'man find' it was like trying to learn mandarin chinese in two hours - not gonna happen, lol. -- There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else. -Theodore Roosevelt, 1915 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org