Hi

How can I refine this search so it works correctly? I wan to be able to find or locate just .iso not files with iso them. The drive below is mounted

find /media/andrew/Windows\ 7/ | grep '.iso'
/media/andrew/Windows 7/ProgramData/AVG2012/log/advisorlog.cfg
/media/andrew/Windows 7/ProgramData/AVG2012/log/avgadvisor.log
/media/andrew/Windows 7/ProgramData/AVG2012/log/avgadvisor.log.1
/media/andrew/Windows 7/ProgramData/AVG2012/log/avgadvisor.log.2
/media/andrew/Windows 7/ProgramData/AVG2012/log/avgadvisor.log.3
/media/andrew/Windows 7/ProgramData/AVG2012/log/avgadvisor.log.lock
/media/andrew/Windows 7/ProgramData/HP/LGT/Data/Models/Images/generic/usb_ethernet_comparison.png
/media/andrew/Windows 7/ProgramData/MFAData/SelfUpd/avgadvisorx.dll
/media/andrew/Windows 7/strawberry/c/include/c++/3.4.5/ciso646
/media/andrew/Windows 7/strawberry/c/lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/include/iso646.h
/media/andrew/Windows 7/strawberry/c/lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/install-tools/include/iso646.h
/media/andrew/Windows 7/strawberry/perl/vendor/lib/DBIx/Simple/Comparison.pod
/media/andrew/Windows 7/strawberry/perl/vendor/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-2.enc
/media/andrew/Windows 7/strawberry/perl/vendor/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-3.enc
/media/andrew/Windows 7/strawberry/perl/vendor/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-4.enc
/media/andrew/Windows 7/strawberry/perl/vendor/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-5.enc
/media/andrew/Windows 7/strawberry/perl/vendor/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-7.enc
/media/andrew/Windows 7/strawberry/perl/vendor/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-8.enc
/media/andrew/Windows 7/strawberry/perl/vendor/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-9.enc
/media/andrew/Windows 7/useros-extreme-9.04-20090707-0018-i386.iso
/media/andrew/Windows 7/Virtual Machines/#isos
/media/andrew/Windows 7/Virtual Machines/#isos/bodhi-2.0.0-32.iso
/media/andrew/Windows 7/Virtual Machines/#isos/dammsmall.iso
/media/andrew/Windows 7/Virtual Machines/#isos/Joli-OS-1.2.iso

Locate just gives me:
/home/andrew/Downloads/CentOS-6.4-x86_64-LiveDVD.iso
/usr/lib/memtest86+/memtest86+.iso
which is where my linux is installed

First things is to better define (to yourself) what you are looking for (hint: ... filenames ending in .iso)

Then look at the manpages for all those commands - they all take regex; including find, so the pipe to grep is unnecessary.
Locate only works against the updatedb, so a recent mount is unlikely to be there - especially /media, which is likely in the prune list and hence ignored.

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Cool , thanks for the info , I figured it out:
find /media/andrew/Windows\ 7/Virtual\ Machines/ . -name "*.iso"

Looks much better - glad you like it.