Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 17:43:03 +0100 (MEZ) From: Rainer M Duffner <Rainer.Duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de> To: Paul <paulturner@home.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Find and an editor Message-ID: <Marcel-1.46-1121164303-313Zsav@duffner.konstanz.netsurf.de> In-Reply-To: <006801be1457$5732f460$0a00000a@pdc.frmt1.sfba.home.com>
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On Fri 20 Nov, Paul wrote: > Found this address in the newsgroups. I have 2.2.7 and X working fine. If > only i could get find to search through multiple directories and find an X > editor to edit the important files, I am sure I could go a lot farther. > > When I try to use "find sysinstall" for example, it searches only the current > directory. > I have since found /stand/sysinstall, but there are many other files I > need to "find". man find will produce lots of text, which you'll only need at some point in the future. Basically, it goes like this: find / -name file_name -print will search the complete tree. This will take some time, depending on the amount of source you have laing around, it will take some minutes even with a fast SCSI-disk. find . -name file_name -print will search from the current directory downward. find /usr/local -name file_name -print will search /usr/local only. You can play with the size/age things later. > I also would like a stable X based file editor. Please do not > point me to "vi". I admi t I am coming from Microsoft. nedit. Not too complicated, yet reasonably powerful. It's in the ports, but you'd need Motif to manually compile it (which I guess you don't have). So, install it from a package (should be on the first CD, IIRC). > We are a community service non-profit organization, and I am less than > enthusiastic about supporting the commercial monopoly. Just buy buying the CD and not-buying something from Redmont, you've effectively lowered their profit. Go and install a larger mail-server and you cost 'em several 1000s in Exchange-Licences. I have seen estimates that a 500-User Exchange-System would cost close to 200000 USD. > If you have a moment, I would also like some hints on how to handle the fact > that the rest of the "world" expects us to be able to deal with the > "Word" and "Excel" files th at get sent to us, if we go completely StarOffice (IIIRC) 5.0 is free for personal use now (even the Windoze, Mac, OS2 and Solaris versions). I just hope, you don't have to suck the 70 Meg Download down a 28k phone-line... cheers, Rainer -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |Rainer Duffner, E-Mail: duffner@fh-konstanz.de | | & Rainer.Duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de | |Fachhochschule Konstanz, Germany | |"What's a Network ?" - Bill Gates, early 1980s | | WWW:http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~duffner | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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