find files in unix (was HP X11lib.a location)

[Rick Riolo]

And just a PS to what Ginger said ;-)

There are probably a lot of folks on this list
who are new to unix so they might not know some
of the little unix tricks.   
Here is an excerpt showing how to find a file
you suspect is on the system but you don't know where:

maria-rlr)find / -name "libX11.a" -print
find: cannot open /dev/diag
/usr/lib/X11R5/libX11.a
...

(That "maria-rlr)" is my prompt.)
The above command looks at all the directories on the system below / 
(root dir), but you could also look in specified subtrees, eg
  find /usr -name "libX11.a" -print
   
To find the file Ginger mentioned you could put a wildcard
character in the -name, eg,
badger-rlr)find / -name "libX11.*" -print
find: cannot open /dev/diag
find: cannot open /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ifo.st/typefaces
/usr/lib/X11R4/libX11.sl
/usr/lib/X11R5/libX11.sl
/usr/lib/X11R5/libX11.a

(I don't have a libX11.2 on my 9.05 I guess, but I did find
different versions of the dynamically loadable versions.)

I highly recommend reading about the unix find command.
It can be used to do a lot of useful little jobs
(esp using the -exec option to have it do some specified
command to all the files the find command finds.)

  - r


Rick Riolo                       address@hidden
Program for Study of Complex Systems (PSCS)
4068 Randall Lab     University of Michigan
Ann Arbor MI 48109-1120
http://pscs.physics.lsa.umich.edu/PEOPLE/rlr-home.html


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