Do this at your prompt.
"find DirectoryName -type f -printf "%p " | xargs egrep -i "String" | less"
Linux and Unix and their variants have several different ways of locating files. each of the below commands can be used to locate files.findlocatewheriswhich
From the command line: To find the files there are a variety of utilities that you can use including: find, locate, and slocate. To remove the files use the command: rm filename.ext
Ya Linux is virus free OS, How?? Answer: Linux OS Extracted files and folders are kept hidden which cannot be accessed by viruses. Now what are Viruses?? Viruses are the files which carry the path-name of the WINDOWS FOLDER present in Windows OS where all the functional .(DOT)dll files are stored. Once these .dll files get corrupted then the PC starts behaving like a mad bull. So, these .dll kind (not the same format files) of files are also their in Linux OS but they are kept hidden, as a result the virus path cannot find them. Thus, no damage but still the files stored by the user on a Linux machine get corrupted.
find . -iname '*.c' -o -iname '*.cpp'
On some Linux systems there is an application called "GNOME Do" which does that.
The function egrep in Unix allows the Linux user to specify a pattern match using a regular pattern expression in the search. The feature is used to find content within files that match a certain criteria.
The grep command is used to search for text, or lines containing certain words or strings of words. Stackoverflow, techonthenet, linux are a few sites that tell more about this command
vim /var/log/messages Check for other files in the log directory, starting with message, followed by a number, to find the information you need.
You can find many pdf files if you google it. And I personally suggest searching on youtube. Youtbers have posted some great tutorials there.
All drivers and devices in Linux are simply files or folders. Usually a link to them will appear on your desktop when needed. For example if you plug in an external hard drive or insert a DVD. If not if you look in /dev/ you will find everything.
Linux cannot by default run .exe files. Those are Windows programs. With an application library called "Wine", many (but certainly not all) Windows programs can be run. Check your distro's repository to see if they have a package of Wine for you to install.
It uses tracks and sectors to find certain pin points on where the data is. Some of the spots are reserved for certain files.