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On 1/14/24 17:27, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 05:00:09PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
>> On 1/14/24 11:10, Arno Lehmann wrote:
>>> Gene,
>>>
>>> Am 14.01.2024 um 16:56 schrieb gene heskett:
>>>> On 1/14/24 04:58, David Christensen wrote:
>>>>> find . -xdev -iname '*filter*'
>>>> gene@coyote:/etc$ sudo find . -xdev -iname '*filter*'
>>>
>>> why sudo, and why in /etc ?
>> /etc only because I was there and sudo to get around a whole passel of no
>> permissons.
>> I thought find was global. Its not? My mistake then.
> 
> The arguments after find which don't begin with "-" are the starting
> point(s).  In this case, your command asks find to start in "." which
> is the current directory.
> 
> If you were to run something like
> 
>      find /tmp /var -iname '*.log'
> 
> then it would look for pathnames ending with .log (case-insensitive)
> starting in /tmp and /var.
> 
> .
I see. I grew into linux 26 years ago, using locate but you have to 
updatedb first if you want the current state. I should use find more 
often, its realtime.

Thanks Greg.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
-- 
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  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
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  - Louis D. Brandeis

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call me puzzled. gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-01-12 14:40 +0100
  Thunderbird filters (was: call me puzzled.) Arno Lehmann <al@its-lehmann.de> - 2024-01-12 14:50 +0100
    Re: Thunderbird filters David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-01-12 22:00 +0100
      Re: Thunderbird filters gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-01-13 03:20 +0100
        Re: Thunderbird filters David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-01-14 11:00 +0100
          Re: Thunderbird filters gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-01-14 17:00 +0100
            Re: Thunderbird filters Arno Lehmann <al@its-lehmann.de> - 2024-01-14 17:20 +0100
              Re: Thunderbird filters gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-01-14 23:10 +0100
                Re: Thunderbird filters Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-01-14 23:30 +0100
                Re: Thunderbird filters gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-01-15 02:00 +0100
                Re: Thunderbird filters Arno Lehmann <al@its-lehmann.de> - 2024-01-15 01:00 +0100
            Re: Thunderbird filters David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-01-15 02:30 +0100
              Re: Thunderbird filters Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-01-15 15:10 +0100
                Re: Thunderbird filters David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-01-15 22:30 +0100
                Re: Thunderbird filters Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-01-16 03:40 +0100
                Re: Thunderbird filters David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-01-16 06:40 +0100
                Re: Thunderbird filters Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-01-16 16:20 +0100
          Re: Thunderbird filters David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-01-14 17:20 +0100
            Re: Thunderbird filters gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-01-14 23:20 +0100
              Re: Thunderbird filters Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2024-01-15 00:20 +0100
              Re: Thunderbird filters David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-01-15 01:50 +0100
            Re: Thunderbird filters David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-01-15 02:20 +0100
        Re: Thunderbird filters Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-01-14 17:50 +0100
          Re: Thunderbird filters gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-01-14 23:20 +0100
  Re: call me puzzled. gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-01-15 00:20 +0100
    Re: call me puzzled. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-01-15 21:00 +0100
      Re: call me puzzled. <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-01-15 21:10 +0100
        Re: call me puzzled. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-01-16 05:10 +0100
          Re: call me puzzled. <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-01-16 07:00 +0100
      Re: call me puzzled. gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-01-16 00:20 +0100

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