Re: Finding installed package files

From: Bit Twister (BitTwister_at_mouse-potato.com)
Date: 04/02/05

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    On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 17:45:19 GMT, Edward Diener wrote:
    > I am a relative newbie in the Linux world running Fedora 3. I installed
    > some packages and now I want to find out what was installed and where.
    > I am sure there is a
    > command line utility to search through my file system for a file glob,

    Yes it called locate
    clickup a terminal and try
    man locate
    man grep

    Now you can do something like
    locate | grep app_name_here | grep -v bin/

    Want more control over what to find and do something after finding it? Try
    man find

    Newbie tips for today:
    man -k key_word_here # example man -k permission

    For extra points
    man man
    man apropos

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