[jgift]

Something called "nmbd" was just caught trying to call out of my system. Since the traditional Find won't unearth this, I was thinking the shell will work. Tried:

find /Applications -type f -name nmbd | grep nmbd

Nothing.

What would be the command to look throughout a given directory and will it find hidden files.

Thanks.

[Turias]

How about... Google?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...=Google+Search

P.S. nmbd is in /usr/sbin/

[jgift]

Found it. Thanks. Did search Google earlier without luck. Um, Samba. Thanks!

But a good "find" would be nice to have for future reference...

[Turias]

Originally posted by jgift:
Found it. Thanks. Did search Google earlier without luck. Um, Samba. Thanks!

But a good "find" would be nice to have for future reference...

Well, your first "find" took "/Applications" as an argument, which is fine, but you were looking for something in /usr/sbin.

Instead, give "find" the argument "/". This will search your entire filesystem.

[jgift]

Will do. Thanks for the help.

[Moonray]

You won't need the -type f, and grep nmbd while searching for nmbd isn't necessary either.

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[P]

Actually, it's probably easier to just use Sherlock.

[Moonray]

Originally posted by P:
Actually, it's probably easier to just use Sherlock.

Sherlock doesn't do the searches anymore and the Finder search function does not search in all places, especially not in the interesting ones where you find executable system stuff, neither the OS X nor the Unix folders.

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[Evan]

Since the traditional Find won't unearth this, I was thinking the shell will work.

% whereis nmbd
/usr/sbin/nmbd

[Paul McCann]

You do know about "locate" I hope. For files that aren't constantly popping in and out of existence (such as any system files, and in fact the *vast* majority of files on your system) there's a nice database built every week. So a simple

% locate nmbd

should show you all files with nmbd in their total pathname. If you get a message like "no database present" when running that command it means that your weekly maintenance script has *never* run. So you might want to look at something like MacJanitor to run these things manually, or at other times.

[[For what it's worth: /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb is the executable that updates the locate database, so you could just update by running "sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb" by hand. This scans the whole disk via a find / based command (you can read the shell script at the above location) and caches the result.]]

Urkk, enough,
Paul