On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:39:42 -0500 (EST)
Leandro Melo wrote:
What's the default tool to search the file system in fedora?
locate.
-- DESCRIPTION Secure Locate provides a secure way to index and quickly search for files on your system. It uses incremental encoding just like GNU locate to compress its database to make searching faster, but it will also store file permissions and ownership so that users will not see files they do not have access to. ie: locate <search string>
Richard E Miles Federal Way WA. USA registered linux user 46097
Take note, however, that 'locate' won't have correct results unless the file locate database is updated using 'updatedb' (or on some systems, even FreeBSD, it is /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb).
If I want to find something where I know it exists inside a specific directory tree, I'd use 'find'. If I had no clue where the file lived, I'd run 'updatedb' followed by a 'locate {filename}'
Hope that helps -dant
