find

Pedroski · 07-10-2004, 01:07 PM

I plugged an old hardrive into my comp. It has Win95 on it. I was looking for an old .wav file of my boy when he was very young. find can't find anything, no matter what I ask it to find
I set
find /mnt/win_c2 *.wav -depth
But even if I ask it to find a directory, it can't
no such file or directory, even though it whizzes by on the terminal.

What might be the problem??

Vookimedlo · 07-10-2004, 01:42 PM

Try find /mnt/win_c2 | grep -i .wav

it's possible that file you are searching doesn't have wav extension, but for example Wav.

grep -i will ignore case sensitive.

idaho · 07-10-2004, 05:30 PM

You could also try:
locate -i wav

JayCnrs · 07-10-2004, 06:57 PM

Do you have access to any parts of that drive, did you mount the drive first before performing the search ?

Pedroski · 07-11-2004, 03:59 AM

Locate won't work, as it doesn't search hdb6. Don't know enough to make it do that at present.
Do I have to set up a separate db?
And yes the drive is automounted under /mnt/win_c2 . I can browse it, but find can't find even say, the directory Users, although it is plain to see in Konquerer

Vookimedlo · 07-11-2004, 09:44 AM

If you mount, at redhat, device hdb6 with option vfat or ntfs (not auto), you can run updatedb to update your database.

see at /etc/updatedb.conf for paths and filesystems which will be excluded.

more at info updatedb

miss crump · 07-12-2004, 09:46 AM

Try:

find /mnt/win_c2 -name *wav -print

This is a more formal find command.

Vookimedlo · 07-12-2004, 12:05 PM

but this will find only lower case extension "wav"