Hi everybody!
Help me please to figure out the comand that I need to use to find a file and open it at same time
for example:
root@serg-PORTEGE-Z835:~# locate bash_profile
/usr/share/doc/adduser/examples/adduser.local.conf.examples/skel/dot.bash_profile
and lets say I want to open this file, but I don't want to use cd and go all the way down to that file.
Is ther any easy and short way to do this?
find / -name 'bash_profile' -exec cat {} \;
Beware you might get more than one file
how about if the file that I'm looking is a text file and I want to open it in vi editor?
Just replace the cat with vi.
I usually use the "less" command, which will let me look at the file, and optionally edit it if I want.
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