I'm not all that new to linux, but this is one I just can't seem to figure out. I've the man pages (man -k find, locate) but I can't seem to find anything. Doesn't seem to be any place intuitive in Gnome. I just need to know where some files are located.

Help.

Richard

do

locate / file
where / is the dir you wan't to search in ( / means whole filesystem)

You can alsp use find for the same

Mind you if you can't find anything and you're very sure it should be there, try updating the database of your searchtool.
(in case of locate do 'updatedb')
It happened to me that I couldn't find a thing even though I was sure I had just installed it.

Anne

The way I do it is,

find | grep "whatever"

rather inefficient, but I'm too lazy to learn how to properly use find

I have never been able to find anything using grep, I'll have to do some reading on that

Anne

I usually use:
find ./ -name "filename"
If there are lots of entries (such as when filename is *.mp3), then piping to less or grepping to refine the search works well.

find . -name filetosearchfor* -print
starts searching in the current directory through
all the subdirectories for the filenameyou specify.
I put the asterick in to show you can use wildcards.
its
find then where you want to start searching from
then what you want to search for
then what you want to do with the results.

locate uses a database that it makes and is much faster,
but may not be current. often locate updates its
database as a cron job in the background.

grep is for searching for text in a file or files
grep -r poo *
searches for poo all files in the current directory
and below.
you could go into your mozilla cache or cookies
and see if your credit card number was stored
anywhere there
grep -r 1234123412341234 *