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



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

before running locate. Then just run

locate name_of_file_or_piece_of_name



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