Re: Newbie: where did my tar.gz file decompress to?

[ktb <ktb@nixnotes.org>]

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:12:24AM -0400, Harry Henry Gebel wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 07:49:04AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote:
> > In the continuing saga of this unix/linux novice
> > trying to install NVIDIA drivers from floppy I learned
> > how with the help of the responses from this list to
> > mount my floppy and decompress my tar files using "tar
> > -xzvf NVIDIA.tar.gz". I could see written to the
> > screen all the various files being unzipped. Now I
> > can't find which directory these files are in. They
> > are not in the parent directory /usr/local that I
> > copied the files to from the floppy drive before
> > unzipping. Is there a find application I could use?
> 
> They should be in a subdirectory of the directory you were in when you
> extracted them, so if you where in '/home/username' they would be in
> '/home/username/some_directory' (you would have seen some_directory as you
> were extracting them).
> 
> You can use the `locate` command to search for files; if your nightly cron
> job hasn't run since you extracted the files run
> 
> su -c /etc/cron.daily/find
> 

Or you could just run 
# updatedb
kent

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