• The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOPM
    2·
    1 day ago

    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.

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 day ago

      ah. makes sense.

      find is really easy.

      find -type f -name "*wildcard_filename*"

      find -type d -name "*wildcard_directoryname*"

        • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
          2·
          1 day ago

          It’s best to not run it on your root folder, because you’ll be greeted with a wall of errors from /proc or other system directories.

          The main ones I check are:

          • /usr
          • /var
          • /opt
          • /etc
          • /home
          • /lib (usually only when troubleshooting compile errors)