Ubuntu – How to find all the files related to a software

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I'm not sure if it is possible, but if it is, how can I find all the files related to a software? For example, is there any way to find all files that gedit needs and uses to work?

Does such command/techniques gather files like /usr/share/gtksourceview-3.0/styles/oblivion.xml which is not dedicated only to a certain software or owned by a different one?

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To list files belonging to a package, run

$ dpkg -L packagename

^{Note: does not include configuration files, usually.}

To find the package a file belongs to, run

$ dpkg -S /path/to/file

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Ubuntu – How to collect all the “txt” and “log” files using find

You are on the right way. Try this:

find . $ -iname "*.log" -or -iname "*.txt" $ -print0 | xargs -0 tar zcf $file

Command-Line Find – Exclude Hidden Files and Directories in Wildcard-Embedded Find Search

This prints all files that are descendants of your directory, skipping hidden files and directories:

find . -not -path '*/\.*'

So if you're looking for a file with some text in its name, and you want to skip hidden files and directories, run:

find . -not -path '*/\.*' -type f -name '*some text*'

Explanation:

The -path option runs checks a pattern against the entire path string. * is a wildcard, / is a directory separator, \. is a dot (it has to be escaped to avoid special meaning), and * is another wildcard. -not means don't select files that match this test.

I don't think that find is smart enough to avoid recursively searching hidden directories in the previous command, so if you need speed, use -prune instead, like this:

 find . -type d -path '*/\.*' -prune -o -not -name '.*' -type f -name '*some text*' -print

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