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Date:      Tue, 19 Feb 2002 19:28:52 -0800
From:      Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>
To:        Posthuman <posthuman@sbcglobal.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: file in a system.
Message-ID:  <20020219192852.F29935@ninja1.internal>
In-Reply-To: <000c01c1b9ba$3d41e9b0$0abf7842@posthuman>; from "posthuman@sbcglobal.net" on Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at = 06:56:44PM
References:  <000c01c1b9ba$3d41e9b0$0abf7842@posthuman>

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> I've been browsing thru the man pages in order to locate "command +
> arguments" on how I can locate a certain file in the system if am not
> sure where it is. I stopped at "wc" "grep" "whereis" but I didn't get
> any results. My question is how can I list all *.log files on my system
> + the path for everyone, regardless of their location. If can give an
> example I will be grateful. Thanks in advance.

locate '*.log'

Make sure you locatedb is up to date.  A weekly script gets run to
keep the DB in sync, /etc/periodic/weekly/310.updatedb.  Feel free to
run this whenever you feel your locate commands are no longer
accurate.  -sc

-- 
Sean Chittenden

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