Weird Situation with Vinux

[Tim Chase]

On 10/17/11 16:11, RiverWind wrote:
> The files in question were "rar" and "zip" archives, so how
> would this syntax work?

To find all .zip and .rar files on your hard-drive, use

  find $HOME -iname '*.rar' -o -iname '*.zip' 2>/dev/null | less

or

  find / -iname '*.rar' -o -iname '*.zip' 2>/dev/null | less

This starts the search in either your $HOME directory or the 
top-level directory ("/").  It then looks for files that are 
either *.rar or ("-o") *.zip files.  Using just "-name" instead 
of "-iname" would find ".zip" but not ".ZIP" which is sometimes 
an issue if the source uppercases filenames/extensions, so by 
using "-iname", it makes the search case-insensitive.

While Hart suggested using "locate", I've had enough times that 
the locate DB wasn't updated that I usually just use "find" which 
doesn't require a database to be up-to-date.  It's not as fast, 
but gives me real-time results.

-tim