Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 29, 2005 01:28 AM
I like to use locate and grep together so that I can find that elusive program that I can't quite remember that actual name of. For example, if I am looking for a program that had "conf" in it I would type:
locate conf | grep bin/
That would show me all of the files that have "conf" in their names that are in the<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/bin<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/sbin<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/usr/bin<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/usr/sbin and<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/usr/X11R6/bin directories.
Debian based users should try it with "apt" and it will show apt-cache; another nice program to become familiar with.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 29, 2005 01:28 AMfind that elusive program that I can't quite remember that actual name of.
For example, if I am looking for a program that had "conf" in it I would type:
locate conf | grep bin/
That would show me all of the files that have "conf" in their names that are in the<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/bin<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/sbin<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/usr/bin<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/usr/sbin and<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/usr/X11R6/bin directories.
Debian based users should try it with "apt" and it
will show apt-cache; another nice program to become familiar with.
Cheers
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