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Posted: April 10 2004,11:09 QUOTE

Wondering if there's a proper file search tool in DSL (ala Window$ file search...)
I've tried the "filter" under Emelfm, but it seems you need to click through every directory and sub directory - it just removes from view the files that aren't named that file name, from that particular directory, doesn't filter through sub-dirs etc...

And I can't get Midnight Commander to work...

ie., if I want to find, say, GIMP script-fu files (*.scm), what is the best and simplest way of searching for them through the whole file system?

If such a tool isn't included, I think that would definitely be something that should be added to the distro!  (for us less-than-savy users)


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Posted: April 10 2004,11:50 QUOTE

Just use the *nix find command in a terminal window.

Use Apps ->Tools -> Net MAN to read about find.

In a nutshell, to search for file joeblow starting with the root directory...

XShells -> Root Access  (because root has access to EVERY location)

# find / -name joeblow

NOTE: This is a good time to learn about "regular expressions"
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Posted: April 10 2004,17:44 QUOTE

Complete (and I do mean it) documentation for the find utilities is at the GNU Project.

Happy reading. There will be a test next class.  :laugh:


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