Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 25, 2005 06:53 PM
Not all distributions include locate by default. But it is really usefull.
Example: locate *HOWTO*
Finds all files that cointain the word HOWTO.
And grep & rgrep can be usefull too. Lets say that you are looking for al the files that opens a Mysql connection in your source code. Lets type
rgrep mysql_connect . ( assuming that al the source is in the directory . or subdirectories...) I will look _inside_ the files. It's absolutely a time saver command.
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Do not forget Locate or (r)grep
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 25, 2005 06:53 PMExample: locate *HOWTO*
Finds all files that cointain the word HOWTO.
And grep & rgrep can be usefull too. Lets say that you are looking for al the files that opens a Mysql connection in your source code. Lets type
rgrep mysql_connect . ( assuming that al the source is in the directory . or subdirectories...)
I will look _inside_ the files. It's absolutely a time saver command.
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