Weird Situation with Vinux

[RiverWind]

The files in question were "rar" and "zip" archives, so how would this 
syntax work?

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On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Tim Chase wrote:

> It would help to either know a part of the file-name or how you downloaded 
> them.  If you know a part of the filename, you can use
>
> find $HOME -iname '*part*i*know*.iso'
>
> where "*part*i*know*.iso" is some file-spec/glob that would match the parts 
> of the filename you know.  If that doesn't work, you can search the whole 
> hard-drive with
>
> find / -iname '*part*i*know*.iso' 2>/dev/null
>
> (the "2> /dev/null" prevents it from reporting errors if filesystem 
> permissions don't let you descend into a subdirectory).  If for some reason 
> you downloaded it as another user, you might want to run the command as root 
> to have deeper digging capabilities.  Depending on the number of files on 
> your disk and your disk-speed, these commands might take a modest bit of 
> time.
>
> Knowing what tool you used to download the files might also help guess at 
> where the files ended up.
>
> -tim
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