[Novalug] Need help, read the post carefully
Jon LaBadie
novalugml@jgcomp.com
Tue Jan 15 18:07:02 EST 2013
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 04:21:27PM -0500, Nino R. Pereira wrote:
> I'd do
>
> find / -name 'oowriter*'
>
> or
>
> find / -name 'ooffice*'
>
> I get /usr/bin/oowriter or /usr/bin/ooffice
>
> I can type either ooffice or oowriter,
> and in both cases do I get a GUI-type word processor, OpenWriter or
> OpenOffice as the case may be.
>
In my limited survey of distributions, they all seem to
enable the "locate" command. For some purposes locate is
sufficient and MUCH faster than find.
$ locate oowriter # any file with oowriter in its path
$ locate */oowriter # file named exactly oowriter
jl
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