Thread: X Terminal Commands for Noobs
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AlMehdi is offline AlMehdi
2010-09-28 , 09:03
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"grep" is used to find a string from an output of a command.. when you only write "find /" it will output all the files on the n900. Which is not that useful. But if you add grep to find so it becomes "find / | grep <name>". Then "find" will only output the words that equals the one in grep.
Code:
find <path to look in> | grep <word to look for>
If you know the file you are looking for is in "/home" and that it starts with "xou" you could write:
Code:
find /home/ | grep "xou"
It will then give an out put on all the files and directories with "xou" in it. In this case it would find all the cases of xournal in /home/.
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