[Tfug] When RTFM is not enough

[johngalt]

> If anyone tells you to use "find", double up your fist and just pound the
> snot out of them.  When they lose consciousness, drag their body into a

The problem with "find" is what?

Why litter your disk with index files to grep later?

Take care not to get covered in snot, I have a bucketful...


"Bowie J. Poag" wrote:
> 
> > One question at a time. I'm trying to find out where everything is,
> > and older distributions used something called "locate" with "updatedb"
> 
> It should still be there..Its a standard fixture. Might want to hunt down
> the RPM at www.rpmfind.net.
> 
> In the meantime, you can do this quick hack to achieve the same thing:
> 
>    du -k / >/files.txt
> 
> This will create a text file listing the complete expanded filename of every
> file on your system.
> 
> To locate a file, just grep it.
> 
>    grep "whatever" /files.txt
> 
> If anyone tells you to use "find", double up your fist and just pound the
> snot out of them.  When they lose consciousness, drag their body into a
> dumpster, dump some gasoline into it, and set them on fire. Repeat as
> needed.
> 
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