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  • Subject: [~ot] those pesky invisible folders ...
  • From: Brian Johnson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 09:11:40 -0700 (PDT)


Hi all:

We all probably know by now that OS-X utilizes a number of hidden folders and (to my newbie-unix-user view) funky file-path tweaks (where /etc is also /private/etc and so on).

I am trying to reconstruct my laptop environment, including my php and mysql web services (which live in hidden folders) from a backup created by LaCie's SilverKeeper. It copied /private/etc/httpd, so I've got the httpd.conf file, but I am having problems finding /usr/local/ (where mysql gets installed). (I have a symbolic link to /etc, which may be how it finds those files. I didn't have a link for /usr .... could be oops)

So, the questions...

 1. does /usr 'really' have some other path that's not obvious?

 2. is there a command-line tool (variation on ls?) that will recursively
    search the file tree for a particular file name? and does _it_ dig
    through places like /private and /usr??

Many thanks for your insights.

 - Brian Johnson
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