[Novalug] text file location question

Jon LaBadie novalugml@jgcomp.com
Sat Aug 31 14:24:05 EDT 2013


On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:20:28PM -0400, cmhowe@patriot.net wrote:
> List,
> 
> At about 12:08 I saved a text file No .txt. Now I can't find it. How
> should I approach the task?
> 

Assuming you know what you called it, say "textfile",

  : go to your home directory
  $ cd
  : use find to search for the file
  $ find . -iname '*textfile*'

jl
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