Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:01:44 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: utility to all ALL strings? Message-ID: <236FB9A0-F00C-409E-8085-AE2575B7DDBB@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20100618205629.GA6931@thought.org> References: <20100618205629.GA6931@thought.org>
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Hi--
On Jun 18, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> this goes back >> a few years, but is there, somewhere in ports, a
> utility that goes thru the entire system and collects either all
> file names or all strings---i do not think this operated on
> binaries [:-)]--- and hashed and compressed everything?
You're most likely talking about the "locate" command, which collects all filenames from the system to provide a quicker substitute for "find". See:
/usr/libexec/locate.updatedb Script to update the locate database
/etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate Script that starts the database rebuild
Regards,
--
-Chuck
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