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Interesting. I think the posts contains a lot of useful information, however I believe this kind of response is detrimental toward user acquisition. It's very

Interesting. I think the posts contains a lot of useful information, however I believe this kind of response is detrimental toward user acquisition. It's very much akin to the tech guy walking into a sale's person's office, to fix their immediate need. The tech guy is thinking all he has to do is teach the person to think for themselves, problem solved. All the sales guy is thinking is is "oh god, please don't teach me anything". Personally I find locate and slocate very useful in linux to find the files I am after. Going over these might be more useful. That or whatever third party tools are available, with a UI and good UX, to achieve a similar goal.

henesy 11y ago
In the same grain I find which and where is very useful. Additionally, find itself is a command that does its job pretty well. For less serious searches: du -a | grep -in filename # usually works
fruzz 11y ago
The response is also abrasive bordering on condescending. The tone is very much along the lines of "what are you, stupid?" Even though they answer the question in quite some detail, that's really not the kind of thing that makes others be willing to open up about what they don't know and get better. The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard is a very different approach to storing applications on the filesystem than to how MS-DOS/Windows does it. There's a learning curve for Windows users and they do get confused. They conceive of all files for an application residing in a single directory dedicated to that application, whereas the FHS thinks of distributing files for an application according to purpose. I agree - I find locate to be very useful, and failing that grep/find.
vram22 11y ago
A modest amount of time spent learning how to use the main features of find, with options like -o, prune, -exec, {}, along with xargs, grep, can repay itself many times over in a short period. Of course, it presumes the user has the necessary technical bent.

henesy 11y ago

In the same grain I find which and where is very useful. Additionally, find itself is a command that does its job pretty well. For less serious searches: du -a | grep -in filename # usually works

fruzz 11y ago

The response is also abrasive bordering on condescending. The tone is very much along the lines of "what are you, stupid?" Even though they answer the question in quite some detail, that's really not the kind of thing that makes others be willing to open up about what they don't know and get better. The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard is a very different approach to storing applications on the filesystem than to how MS-DOS/Windows does it. There's a learning curve for Windows users and they do get confused. They conceive of all files for an application residing in a single directory dedicated to that application, whereas the FHS thinks of distributing files for an application according to purpose. I agree - I find locate to be very useful, and failing that grep/find.

vram22 11y ago

A modest amount of time spent learning how to use the main features of find, with options like -o, prune, -exec, {}, along with xargs, grep, can repay itself many times over in a short period. Of course, it presumes the user has the necessary technical bent.