I am trying to find a hidden file that I know the name, but no the location of. The name is "message", and I have tried sudo locate *message*, but I have not found it. I have too much output, plus I do not think locate is showing the hidden files. Any ideas?
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I wanted to add classpath to my JDK. While searching a way to do it I noticed everyone open .profile file using terminal. But when I want to open and edit it with a text editor I couldn't see that file in Home folder.  Can someone tell me why is this. And also if possible how can I access .profile in home folder the GUI way.
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The locate command sounds intuitive. I would expect it to locate files on the filesystem. However, it rarely finds files on the system that are indeed present:  $ locate ipsec.secrets   This gives  no results, even when run from filesystem root directory /. The file is indeed present:  $ whereis ipsec.secrets ipsec: /usr/sbin/ipsec /etc/ipsec.secrets /etc/ipsec.d /etc/ipsec.conf /usr/lib/ipsec /usr/share/man/man8/ipsec.8.gz   Why was locate unable to find this file?
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Whenever I open my files, my hidden files show up. I can hide them but when I open up my files again, they're showing again. How do I make the hidden files invisible permanently?
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I want to know how to see the permissions a particular file has. Which command should I type in the terminal? However, I don't want to change it.
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Files disappeared from my computer. On running a system search, they were found in C:\found.001\disk0001.chk  I want to go in there and have a look, if there are other files there too, but it gives me an access denied message. I ran chkdsk but it said no problems.   Ideally I would want to run a recovery utility (not the ones for deleted files) that would restore them all to the respective locations. Though I am lucky, I still have them at this weird place.   I am on windows 7.
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I am using Ubuntu 15.10 and I had a file name __app.zip and I was wanting to move that inside the folder name testing  To move the file i used the following command after which I cant find the file anymore, from searching online I understand now that i did not need to put / before the folder name.  sudo mv __apps.zip /testing   Is there anyway to get the lost file back?
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I am using Ubuntu 16.04 and whenever I open the file manager to see my folders, the hidden files are always displayed, I do not want to show them ... they appear alone, and it is always when I open the file manager.  How can i fix this?
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I'm trying to learn UNIX commands and I'm playing this game to learn and I'm really stuck at the moment. I'm in a server through ssh and the directory is full of random files and folders and the password for the next level is inside one of the files. I have been told that the file has the following attrbutes:   human-readable 1033 bytes non-executable   I am guessing that I should use the find command and I tried find ! -executable but that returned a load of files. The only human-readable help I can find in the manual or online is printing out the file sizes in human readable. So I'm a bit lost there?  Also I did try find ~ -size 1033b but that returned nothing. But when I tried find ~ -size -1033b it returned every file in the directory.
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Along side the question "" that explained the programical aspects of the error and suggested some workarounds, I want to know: what does this error mean?   X is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.   The former part of the error explains, clearly, the error. But the second part says that "This error will be reported"?! But why? Why the error will be reported and where? To whom? I'm both user and administrator and didn't receive any report :)!
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When opening a folder, by default it always shows hidden files. I can uncheck the view option and they disappear but reappear on the next opening with the hidden files option re-checked. Have I inadvertently changed an option or is this a bug? No-one else seems to have encountered this.
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I'd like to find the files in the current directory that contain the text "chrome".  $ find . -exec grep chrome find: missing argument to `-exec'   What am I doing wrong?
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On the command line I regularly use locate, or more often a locate x | grep y pattern to find a file I know exists but can't find!  I'd like something that did this quickly in the GUI. Can't find it if it's there.  Here's my confusion   In the applications/overview I can see Search and Indexing. This seems to be a configuration tool. But if this is a server, I can't find a client. In applications I find Nepomuk File Indexing -- I think this is a KDE thing? Ditto, no client? I've installed tracker. This is a strange mix of powerful and unreliable/limited. e.g. it doesn't find files like locate does (returns no results where locate returns 96 results), but is will unpack every tag I've added to my photos! And you can't limit by folder for a quick search within a folder. The old Gnome 2 Search for files... thing is not in the Accessories menu anymore.   I feel that this is basic/core-level functionality and I can't help feeling I'm missing something obvious.
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I have a friend who is playing with me on a server we've created. Unfortunately, he is on a  Mac whereas I am on a Windows machine. I told him that I should be able to compile and send a .minecraft folder to him so that we can both play. Unfortunately, he can't find his .minecraft folder where it is supposed to be. Is it hidden and how can I unhide it?
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I'd like to find where a file (with a partially-known filename) is in the file system.  I'd like to know how to do this from the command line, rather than using a GUI utility.  In Windows, I'd run the following:  cd /d C:\ dir *filename* /s   What's the Linux equivalent?
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I made the mistake of copying the same files to different partitions with good intentions of pruning (deleting) them from the source or target(s) later. Now when I try to locate them I get too many results from locate command:  rick@alien:~$ locate "display-auto-brightness" /etc/cron.d/display-auto-brightness /home/rick/Pictures/display-auto-brightness conky.png /home/rick/Pictures/display-auto-brightness systray.png /home/rick/Pictures/display-auto-brightness-config 1.png /home/rick/Pictures/ps display-auto-brightness.png /lib/systemd/system-sleep/display-auto-brightness /mnt/e/etc/cron.d/display-auto-brightness /mnt/e/lib/systemd/system-sleep/display-auto-brightness /mnt/e/usr/local/bin/display-auto-brightness /usr/local/bin/display-auto-brightness   The locate command is automatically placing the * wild card after the search string and returning extra undesired results. The .png files should not be returned.  Why is locate returning too many results?
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How to show hidden files in Nautilus 3.20.3 Ubuntu 16.10?
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when I used ls -a to view hidden files in folder there were 2 hidden files created by default what is the significance of this two files . and ..?  ls -a   Produces  .  ..