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moving from Windows to Ubuntu 20.04

Asked by Jonathan Silvey

Hi,
I'm totally new to Linux. I'm trying to locate my file structure, as in Windows Explorer. I'm told to use the Find command, but how do do that from Gnome/the desktop?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Ubuntu 20.04 doesn't exist. It will in 2020 which is in the future.

For easy finding run:

sudo updatedb

This may take a while. But will ultimately make searching faster. You can then run:

locate fire

and it will find all the files and folders with the word 'fire' in them (case sensitive of course).

HTH

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Jonathan Silvey (jonathan-silvey) said : 		#2

My ignorance is showing. Of course my Ubuntu is actually 12.04, not 20.04

My problem is, how do I get out of gnome/desktop so that I can run commands lile sudo updatedb?

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

You don't need to get out, just press CTRL+ALT+T and you have a terminal.....

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Jonathan Silvey (jonathan-silvey) said : 		#4

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.