Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 15:39:56 +0300 (EET DST) From: Viljo Hakala <vipe@terafox.fi> To: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: First commands Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981006153655.21725B-100000@fire.dreams.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <199810051735.KAA00651@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, David Wolfskill wrote: > > One I was surprised to see on the list is "locate" -- I don't think > I'd ever heard of it; I'm fairly certain I've never used it. (Just > checked a Solaris 2.5 system; no such command. Maybe "locate" is > FreeBSD (or 4.4 BSD) -specific?) > Locate comes from 4.4. BSD tree. You may have found on Sun platforms that there are 'which' and 'whereis' commands, which are both similar to 'locate'. t. vh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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