Searching Ubuntu filesytem from command line

Posted by fermi on Feb 9, 2011 5:41 AM EDT
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There are several commands available on the command line to locate files and folders on the file system. This article reviews three of them, viz whereis ,locate. find.

There are several commands available on the command line to locate files and folders on the file system. This article reviews three of them, viz whereis ,locate. find.

1) whereis

This command can search for the binary, source, and manual page files for a comand

$ whereis whereis whereis: /usr/bin/whereis /usr/share/man/man1/whereis.1.gz

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