[lug] Finding a File

[Matt Thompson]

On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 09:50, Warren Sanders wrote:
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> Steve Lowe wrote:
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> |Try the 'locate' command.

Caveat:  this will only work if updatedb has been run since installation
of the file.

> or the 'which' command.  'which minicom' would tell you if it's in
> your path, but then just running 'minicom' would work then ;-)

Another caveat is this might need a "rehash" if you're on zsh or similar
shell before the path finds it.

I usually use find, as others have stated.  I usually err on the side of
hating my discs and would use:

find /usr -iname '*mini*'

The iname flag makes the search case-insignificant.  
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