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Date:      Wed, 19 Oct 2016 20:37:20 +0200
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        "Kevin P. Neal" <kpn@neutralgood.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Is there a curses-based mp3 player available in FreeBSD ?
Message-ID:  <20161019203720.3ca646f1.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <20161019180428.GB37473@neutralgood.org>
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On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 14:04:28 -0400, Kevin P. Neal wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 04:34:21PM +0000, Manish Jain wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 10/19/16 21:55, Alejandro Imass wrote:
> > > make search name=[regexp]
> > 
> > FreeBSD is the land of discovery, lol. I knew make has recursion support 
> > (make config-recursive); but I never knew there is a 'make search' too.
> 
> Am I the only one who uses the locate command for this type of thing?
> It has to be much faster than most other methods typically.

The use of the "locate" command requires that the corresponding
database has been built (and is up to date). This is not always
the case, especially on "user PCs" due to the database creation
happening when the PC is switched off. ;-)


-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...



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