Re: [TCLUG:6388] Finding files quickly

[Eric Edgar <edga0010@tc.umn.edu>]

Why not try 

which tar

It works for me and gives me the path or the alias to which tar refers.
Most bug proof .. 8)

Eric

On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, James Raney wrote:

> A more bug-proof method would be:
> 
> locate tar |perl -ane '$F[0]=~/\/tar$/&&print'
> 
> Command-line perl is a handy tool indeed.  Not too many other utilities
> can beat it WRT regular expressions.
> 
> -- 
> Jim Raney
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> 
> On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Sandipan Panigrahi wrote:
> 
> > Well here is a work around..
> > 
> > locate /tar | egrep tar$
> > 
> > The "/" makes sure the filename starts with tar in the path
> > and the "$" in the egrep makes sure that there is nothing following tar.
> > 
> > Kludgy I guess !
> > 
> > You could alias this to something you like and I am sure there are
> > bugs in it :-)
> > 
> > regards,
> > sandipan
> > 
> > 
> > Bob Tanner wrote:
> > > 
> > > Quoting Yaron (jethro@yaron.org):
> > > >   Hi,
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Bob Tanner wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > How do I use the updatedb stuff to find files quickly?
> > > > >
> > > > > I normally use find / -name "*filename*", is there a quicker way?
> > > >
> > > > Well, if updatedb is run occasionally from cron etc, you can go "locate
> > > > filename".
> > > >
> > > > Red Hat automatically have this in /etc/cron.daily/
> > > 
> > > That is what I thought, but when I do a locate tar, I get a TON of files with
> > > tar in the name:
> > > 
> > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xfm/bitmaps/app_tar.xbm
> > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xfm/bitmaps/xfm_tar.xbm
> > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xfm/pixmaps/app_tar.xpm
> > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xfm/pixmaps/xfm_tar.xpm
> > > 
> > > Anyway to get just the file called tar?
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