Finding or Searching for a File

[Wanch]

What methods do you use to find or search for files? I'm having a hard time locating a file that I know is on my server.

[v0id]

I'm using the GNOME search tool which ships with GNOME. It's not the best tool, because you'll have to be very specific about where to look. Like, you're not able to search from the root /, but from /usr will work. Another tool I use from time to time is the terminal-utility, find.

[Jordan]

I use the 'find' command and 'locate' command. If you use locate you should run updatedb daily.

[pheinbaugh2]

I usually just do a general search on my pc. It usually finds everything close and you could determine what you are looking for from there.

[Tor]

In Linux what command do you issue to search the whole computer though?

[rumen]

I use the search tools incorporated in Ubuntu 8.04. Works pretty good, no hassles at all.

[Tor]

You mean the GUI KDE/Gnome search tools?

[chown]

I like find. It has a lot of options so you can narrow or expand your search very easily.