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This article lists some of the more useful ways of utilizing the find command. These commands will work on most Linux distributions, and have been tested on recent versions of Fedora. To find a file by its name, starting in the current directory and recursing through its children, use: find . -name '<string>' Search Inside Files To search inside files, descending into subdirectories and listing ONLY the file names: find . -print0 | xargs -0 grep '<search_phrase>' -sl The above command will print out the names of the files that contain the <search_phrase>, which could be a regex. Note that the above command works even with “funny” filenames that contain spaces or newlines. The “print0” and -0 option to xargs do the trick – you can see the xargs man page for an explanation of why this works! Also, xargs is a
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As many of you know, today, November 8th, 2011, was the final release of Fedora 16.  I was debating if I was going to upgrade right away, or wait it out a few weeks and see the reports from others first. Over the past several weeks, I’ve seen a lot of people complaining of various things in the #Fedora IRC channel on Freenode with regards to Fedora 16.  So I was a bit skeptical of course.  I’m certainly not one to rush off into an upgrade on my distro majority of the time.  Yes, I’ve done it a couple of times over the years in the past. I have done upgrades several ways over the years.  Using a CD/DVD to do the upgrade.  Using urpmi with Mandriva/Mandrake to do an upgrade and even doing a net upgrade back in the day.  I even once performed an upgrade using
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Since I recently started using Fedora 15 I noticed that when I reboot the system and/or restart X, that my numlock key doesn’t come on like it should.  When this happens, this means before I can use the number keypad, I have to press the numlock button.  I know, no big deal.  But really this should be on by default. Well, it seems I have found a very easy and simple fix for this.  It’s as simple as installing one little program, and that’s it.  Below is the command: sudo yum install numlockx Yep, that’s it. Once you have that installed things should work accordingly.  The next time you restart X or reboot the system, when it comes back up you should notice your numlock key is now on by default.  Enjoy!
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As many of you who know me, I have been a Mandrake/Mandriva user for nearly 11 years now, with a small break for a couple of years while I was away.  Since June 1st, when I got back, I’ve been running Windows and haven’t been asked a million times what distro I was going to install once I did install Linux.  Well, the decision was made, and it’s now official.  The choice is Fedora 15. Over the years I’ve tried many Linux distros and always stuck with Mandrake/Mandriva.  There were several reasons for that actually.  One was that it was what I started with, what I knew so very well and was comfortable with.  It just always worked for me, usually out of the box mostly.  Another reason, as many of you know was because I built RPM’s for the distro and ran the largest 3
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For all of you E17 and Fedora fans, this how-to will walk you through the steps of installing E17 on Fedora 15. The first thing we need to do is to add a couple additional RPM repositories to our list for some additional packages we will need to complete this. Open your favorite terminal and issue both commands below to add the RPMFusion-Free and RPMFusion-Non-Free repositories: su -c ‘rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm’ su -c ‘rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm’ (more…)
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