[Ricyteach]

Hi all.

I am a newish Linux user, meaning I have used Linux before but have so little experience that I might as well pretend I know nothing because I pretty much.. know nothing.

Anyhow, as I indicated, I know nothing about where things are normally put in a Linux file system, so in order to learn about the file system I was trying to use the grep command tonight to find, for example, the name of a bookmark I put into the browser in order to find out where the bookmarks are kept in the file system.

However, when I run the following command:

grep -r -H "string" /

The Pre always reboots.

Is it a bad thing to grep the root directory? What am I doing wrong here?

Related: is there an article somewhere yet that explains the anatomy of the Pre file system, such as what kinds of things are inside of each directory?

[rboatright]

spend some time looking around the predev.wikidot.net site where a lot of that information has been posted already.

and yes, grepping the root is a bad idea.

and the built in apps are under /usr/palm/applications. Go look there.