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Re: Finding .m files on Mac with Tiger


From: Paul Kienzle
Subject: Re: Finding .m files on Mac with Tiger
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 19:21:09 -0400


On Jul 15, 2005, at 3:56 PM, Joe Koski wrote:

on 7/15/05 12:25 PM, Henry F. Mollet at address@hidden wrote:

In my Fink installation of Octave 2.1.46 on iMac with OS X 10.8, it was installed in /sw which is visible in the Finder Window and Finder/Find will
find any .m file.

Henry,

For poking around in /usr/local on my Mac, the key UNIX tool that I use is
"find" as a replacement for the Finder.

First, cd /usr (or cd /usr/local) in terminal; then, as an example,

   find . -name "*octave*" -print

and you'll get a list of all files and directories in /usr (the . means
start in the current directory) that contain the string "octave" in their
name.

locate is also very useful:

        locate .m

Usually you need to use it with grep:

        locate .m | grep "filt.*[.]m$"  ;# find all filt*.m files

locate uses a database created by updatedb. I don't remember doing anything to enable it, but this is an inherited mac, so your milage may vary.

- Paul



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