The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 21 hours agoHappy to helplemmy.worldimagemessage-square11linkfedilinkarrow-up1269arrow-down110
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minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·19 hours agocould you not open a console and use find or grep?
minus-squareThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·19 hours agoI don’t have much experience searching like that yet and still default to using the gui for navigating directories… I’m still a relative linux noob.
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·19 hours agoah. makes sense. find is really easy. find -type f -name "*wildcard_filename*" find -type d -name "*wildcard_directoryname*"
minus-squareThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·18 hours agoI’ll have to remember this, thanks.
could you not open a console and use find or grep?
I don’t have much experience searching like that yet and still default to using the gui for navigating directories… I’m still a relative linux noob.
ah. makes sense.
find is really easy.
find -type f -name "*wildcard_filename*"find -type d -name "*wildcard_directoryname*"I’ll have to remember this, thanks.