Re: [SLE] finding a file

Some of us can't live without locate from the findutils-locate package. After installing, run updatedb and by default it runs as a cron.daily job, thereafter, "locate filename", "locate .exe" speedily prints out all files with the name, it's much nicer and quicker than "find / -name *.exe -print" or "find / -name *.exe -print0". Regards Sid. Philipp Thomas wrote:

Ken Schneider [Mon, 10 Nov 2003 08:50:20 -0500]:

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On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 10:45, pseep@mail.gr wrote:

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what is the equivalent command of this? dir /s *.exe (in dos)

thank you

Run as root:

find / -name *.exe

Quite :) Remember that you have to escape the '*' to keep the shell from expanding it.

So it's either

find / -name \*.exe

or

find / -name '*.exe'

cheers Philipp

PS Why it'll mostly work as intended is left as an exercise :)

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