[Novalug] should be easy...

[Jay Hart]

Nino,

Dang straight it helps...

Jay

> On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Nino Pereira wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> I can't seem to find the options on 'find' to give
>> me the full path to a file. In my home directory I use
>>
>> find -name '*part-of-filename-I-remember*'
>>
>> and I get
>>
>> ./the-right-filename-I-was-looking-for
>>
>> but not the directory it's in.
>>
>> Please enlighten me.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Nino
>
>
> I use locate which on my system gives full paths.
>
> One has to build the database with:
>
> sudo updatedb -U /
>
> which will build a database of all files from root down
>
> then - without sudo
>
> locate part-of-file-name
>
> will give you everything with that string in it so i usually do
>
> locate part-of-file-name |less
>
>
> does this help
>
>
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