tom wrote: > I thought using the command: $ locate <named files> would work, but > nothing happens, even if I su to root. Any help appreciated. The locate command operates on a pre-compiled database. The database is updated nightly in the /etc/cron.daily/locate script. If you have created or renamed a file today and then 'locate' it today the locate using yesterday's database won't yet know about it. But for files that it does know about it is very, very fast at finding that file. As Neal posted 'find' will find files that exist at this moment on the filesystem. This might take a while but will eventually walk all of the directories and find the files. In addition to Neal's suggestion I would add -xdev to avoid walking through /proc, /sys, and /dev. find -xdev / -name 'somefilename' If you think it is in your home directory then just look there instead of across the entire machine. find ~/ -name 'somefilename' Or just for a piece of the name and use file glob wild cards for the rest of the name. find ~/ -name '*some piece of a name*' find ~/ -name '*pie*' Bob
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