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Quote:> and i find locate just useless; it's not as versatile as find.

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Nate Eldredge

and i find locate just useless; it's not as versatile as find.

Coy
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Coy Hile

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Tennyson, "Charge of the Light Brigade"

| I cant get either the "find" or " locate" commands to work.

I don't know about locate, but if you can't get find to work, you're
probably just using it wrong. find works fine. locate probably works
fine, too, I'm just not familiar with it.

| From the command line and logged on as root I enter (find  /  any-name)

That's not the right way to use find. For starters, enter the command
"find / -name \* -print" and see what happens: you should get a list
of lots of files written to standard output. Assuming you do, find is
probably working just fine. Read the man page for more information.

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        find / -iname anyname >/tmp/newfile
                ^(case insensitive)

the output of find can be very large, so you'll see it passing by your
screen fast.  It's a good thing to print it to a file.

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Find is not an option on a multiuser server.

Slocate should be used, rather than locate, btw.

Brian
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