> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 2:26 PM, betty <
nicepenguin@webcanine.com> wrote:
>> I am using l-ubuntu 12.04 with the pcMan manager and i can't for the life
>> of me find the way to 'find' a file or something with part of a file name
>> in it. it is driving me crazy. What am i missing???
From: Michael Havens <
bmike1@gmail.com>
> try apropos part-of-file-name
apropos is equivalent to "man -k" and is only for searching man pages. I
think that what betty wants is "locate", as in "locate \*some string\*" should
give you a list of files whose names contain the string "some string". NOTE:
This only works if your distro runs updatedb every so often. Most distros are
set up so that updatedb indexes all files once a day at roughly 4am. Check
/var/lib/slocate/slocate.db ; if that file exists and is reasonably large,
your distro is running updatedb every so often.
There are some GUI-fied interfaces to locate too. Not sure what they are,
since I'm a command-line sort of person.
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