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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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