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Findwild Is A GUI Wildcard File Search Application For Linux

| Date: February 27, 2010 | View Comments | Tags: find, findwild, linux, ubuntu

findwild

Findwild is a file search (search in files) utility allowing extensive wildcard selection and exclusion criteria which comes with a GUI interface and can recall past searches.

4 Shell Tools For Find Files In Linux

| Date: October 13, 2009 | View Comments | Tags: commands, find, linux, shell, ubuntu

1. locate

How to use:
locate file_name

Example:
locate xorg.conf

Will return this:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
/usr/share/man/man5/xorg.conf.5.gz
/var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.md5sum


Searching for an exacte match:
locate -r '/xorg.conf$'


Searching non-casesensitive:
locate -i 'file_Name'


Please note: locate relies on slocate database to function, which is cached. To manually update the slocate database, run:
sudo updatedb


2. which

This command tells you where a command lives.
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