[lug] lost file

hirsch at zapmedia.com hirsch at zapmedia.com
Sun Apr 14 22:45:25 MDT 2002


This is good advice.  And if you still can't find it, use the "mtime"
feature of find to find any file that was modified yesterday (or
whenever you downloaded the files).  One of those must be your lost
file.

--Michael

Peter Hutnick writes:
 > On Sunday 14 April 2002 10:18 pm, Yuko Jonah wrote:
 > > Hi all,
 > > yesterday i downloaded a file alsa then i moved it
 > > from
 > > /usr/local  alsa-util-0.9 0beta12.tar.bz2 to download
 > > and lost it. I have search with locate, find, whereis
 > > and moving from file to file still can not find the
 > > file i downloaded. At the time of the move i did not
 > > creat the download just move it, hoping by doing so
 > > will creat the download folder.
 > > thanks,
 > > yuko
 > 
 > You may have noticed that there is no "rename" command in UNIX.  It would be 
 > redundant*.
 > 
 > It is likely that you did something like "mv alsa-util-0.9 0beta12.tar.bz2 
 > /usr/lcoal" or something similar.  The result would be that the name of the 
 > file would change, which would make it hard to find by name.  (The file would 
 > now be in /usr and named lcoal.)
 > 
 > First thing to do is look at your shell's history file.  If you use bash 
 > (probably) see the file ~/.bash_history.  A good first step would be "grep 
 > alsa-util-0.9 0beta12.tar.bz2 ~/bash_history".  You will probably find the 
 > command with the typo, which will tell you "where" the file is both in terms 
 > of directory /and/ filename.
 > 
 > In the future end all "mv" commands with "/." unless you want to change the 
 > filename.  For instance "mv alsa-util-0.9 0beta12.tar.bz2 /usr/src/." assures 
 > that you won't whack the filename.
 > 
 > Oh, and make sure your locate database is up to date.  Maybe "updatedb" as 
 > root?
 > 
 > Next up, a discussion of the importance of the second ">" in ">>" when piping 
 > into and existing file ;-)
 > 
 > Good luck!
 > 
 > -Peter
 > 
 > *It is redundant in DOS now that there is a move command, but at one time 
 > there was a copy, delete, and rename command but no move.  You can do 
 > everything with those three that you can do with copy, move, and delete.  And 
 > vice-versa, but sometimes with an extra step.
 > 
 > -P
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