On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 14:41, Colin Kilbane wrote: > A particular user of mine can not remember where she put an important > file. How do I use grep to search her directory for just file names? > Thanks a lot to the folks that helped me in getting vmware running. In addition to `find' like the others suggested, you can use `locate'. The locate database is usually updated overnight, so it isn't useful for files created recently, but it's often faster than using find (though it all depends on how many files are on your system..) -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ If at first you don't / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ succeed, then skydiving \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) definitely isn't for you. [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020410/d22d5b18/attachment.pgp