Changing color depth in Ubuntu 9.10

[jabr-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (John Abreau)]

A "~" is shorthand for your home directory. Assuming your login name
is "edwardp",
then the command "find ~/ -name xorg.conf" will search under /home/edwardp
for a file named xorg.conf. It won't search the entire system.


On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 3:40 PM,  <edwardp-KK0ffGbhmjU at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> John Abreau wrote:
>>> I tried "sudo find xorg.conf" and it indicated the file was not found,
>>>
>> Is that literally the command you used?
>>
>> The syntax for find(1) is
>>
>> ? ? ?find where-to-search [ patterns ]
>>
>> So the command
>>
>> ? ? ?find xorg.conf
>>
>> says to start at "xorg.conf" in the current directory, and since there
>> were no patterns given to narrow down the search, it will list all
>> files and folders found beneath it. ?If there is no file or directory
>> named "xorg.conf" in the current directory, then it will complain
>> that there's No such file or directory.
>>
>> To search the entire system for a file named xorg.conf, the command
>> would be
>>
>> ? ? ?find / -name xorg.conf
>>
>> with "sudo" prepended so it won't get permission errors, of course.
>> And find(1) will traverse the entire filesystem for this, so it will
>> take a long time.
>>
>
> I tried both "find xorg.conf" and "find ~/ name xorg.conf" with sudo,
> file not found.
>
> I will have to create one from scratch.
>
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