From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 19 14:20:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from colossus.invictanet.co.uk (colossus.invictanet.co.uk [195.74.110.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A896D14CC3 for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 14:20:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from support@invicta.net) Received: from mail (mail.mad-cow.org.uk [195.74.110.26]) by colossus.invictanet.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA12958 for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 22:20:39 +0100 (BST) Reply-To: From: "InvictaNet Customer Support" To: "Freebsd-Questions (E-mail)" Subject: RE: Looking for files Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 22:20:02 +0100 Message-ID: <000001bea23d$5d3965a0$1a6e4ac3@mail.mad-cow.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <374318C9.CBAA460A@kew.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Importance: Normal Disposition-Notification-To: "InvictaNet Customer Support" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The best method is to use locate "locate xyz". However, locate uses a database of file entries which must be created/updated first. On my "unsupported" "out dated" "unreliable" 3.0-980520-SNAP (no dig at other readers of this list intended) system you need to run /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate if it doesn't already run automatically. Martyn ----------------------------------------------------- InvictaNet - The Internet in Plain English, Guaranteed http://www.invictanet.co.uk info@invictanet.co.uk phone: +44 (0)1233 334000 fax: +44 (0)1233 334001   ------------------------------------------------------ -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Ed Keith Sent: 19 May 1999 21:02 To: freebsd-questions Subject: Looking for files In DOS if I'm looking for a file that I don't remember the full name of, but I know it starts with "xyz" I can "cd /" and "dir /s xyz*.*" and find out where it is. How can I do this in FreeBSD? Thank you in advance, -EdK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message