On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 08:24:54PM -0500, tom wrote: > On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 20:13 -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: > > > > man find! Did you look at the manpage . . . the man page for 'find'? > > > > Patience can only be afforded those who take the time to look things up! > > > > # find / -name 'named files' > > > > or > > > > # find /foo -name 'named files*' > > > > etc. > > I certainly did. Except I forgot that if I hit the return button, more > text comes up. So, this is good exercise. Appreciate your patience as > I relearn how to use a command line terminal. Ubuntu has made a cli > cripple of me. > Thanks, Tom > If you get too may files showing up, pipe the output to 'less', like this:
# find / -name 'named files' | less Then you can page up and down, or hit '/' to search for text that might be helpful. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100903170503.ga28...@aurora.owens.net
