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Old 15-Jul-2006, 01:49
ken_yap
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Not to sound ignorant but if i dont use "find / -name xxx" then it wont search all directories am I correct?" what is another alternative?
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find /etc /usr /home /lib /opt ... -name xxx

Those are the most likely places for what you want anyway. Make an alias of it if you do it often. Anyway it's an inefficient way to do it, which is why we have locate and beagle.

Or live with the bogus error message.