For those of us who have a deep-seated fear of learning how to use the `find` command, there's a bit of a cheat. The below (when executed by the root user) will create a database of the file paths on your filesystem in the background.



When it is done, you can find things pretty quickly using the `locate` command followed by a substring of the filename you are looking for, e.g.:



or better yet:



I use it all the time when I can't seem to find my own ass-orted files.

Either add the updatedb& command to your startup scripts or enter it by hand on a regular basis.

-brendan

I'd swear it's there already... Despite my rather cozy relationship with the find command, I also use locate all the time on my system...

Im a big fan of find....expecially the -exec parameter

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You're almost always better off using the xargs command rather than exec unless there is something that you absolutely positively want to run once per file or are in the deepest darkest foulest bowels of quoting hell. For example the following is usually substantiallly faster than running one grep per file: