Re: [~ot] those pesky invisible folders ...
Re: [~ot] those pesky invisible folders ...
- Subject: Re: [~ot] those pesky invisible folders ...
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 12:39:41 -0500 (EST)
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Mark E. Napier
Manager of Information Systems
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University
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On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Brian Johnson wrote:
>
> 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?
not on my install. your milage may vary.
>
> 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??
>
find
ie find . -name .*bar
> Many thanks for your insights.
>
> - Brian Johnson
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