I also sometimes forget the name of some program but can remember part of it such as a lot of programs will have "conf" in them somewhere. If I want to see all of the programs that have "conf" in them I use:
~$ locate conf | grep bin/
And it gives me all of the programs 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 directories.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 27, 2005 01:26 AM~$ file grep
grep: can't stat `grep' (No such file or directory).
But if I use which inside of backticks it works fine:
~$ file `which grep`<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/bin/grep: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
I also sometimes forget the name of some program but can remember part of it such as a lot of programs will have "conf" in them somewhere. If I want to see all of the programs that have "conf" in them I use:
~$ locate conf | grep bin/
And it gives me all of the programs 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 directories.
Cheers,
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