[DM-MUG] cli find command any experts?

Brandon Carlson bcarlso at gmail.com
Mon Jan 17 10:25:56 CST 2011


Another option is to use spotlight:

mdfind -name wine -onlyin ~

On Sunday, January 16, 2011, Jeremy Geerdes <jrgeerdes at gmail.com> wrote:
> Try find ~ -name "wine*"
>
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> On Jan 16, 2011, at 7:00 PM, Ray Bowler wrote:
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>> Down loaded and installed "wine" and in a moment of curiosity I tried the CLI command line "find -f /wine" or "find -f /wine" or find -f / wine" It the find will go merrily walking the tree get to "downloads" directory and zip right by "wine" without finding it.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Ray Bowler
>> rbowler at mchsi.com
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