Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:02:06 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: utility to all ALL strings? Message-ID: <20100618170206.72bc1055.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20100618205629.GA6931@thought.org> References: <20100618205629.GA6931@thought.org>
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In response to Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>: > > 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? > > i remember thinking about it, but because back then my fastest > computer was 500MHz , i thought better =not= to do it. now that > i spend so much time hunting for stuuff, i think i could cron > this utility. --If it wasn't a figment of my imagination! man locate Unless you've tweaked your periodic, this is already running on your system every night. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/
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