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Re: how to find files (including hidden) on n900(permission denied solution)?

As I said you need to fix the updatedb script to use gfind (gnu find, must be installed too) instead of busybox's find.
Sorry no time atm for more detailed help.

Re: how to find files (including hidden) on n900(permission denied solution)?

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Originally Posted by hathoda (Post 976697)

i tried .dae and also *.dae
any help now?

Sorry for reply late due to time lag.

I forgot package locate is quite broken in maemo such that you also need findutils-gnu as casketizer said.

The complete instructions are as followed:

Code:

root

apt-get install locate findutils-gnu

update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/find find /usr/bin/gfind 1

update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/locate locate /usr/bin/gnu/locate 1

update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/updatedb updatedb /usr/bin/gnu/updatedb 1

updatedb

locate .dae

I pulled the above command out of my memory but they should work. Please let me know if you've any other problem.