Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 15:11:40 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Online Impressions <oli@olim.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to find a file.. Message-ID: <19970817151140.37942@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970816222229.0068c174@mail.deltanet.com>; from Online Impressions on Sat, Aug 16, 1997 at 10:22:37PM -0700 References: <3.0.32.19970816222229.0068c174@mail.deltanet.com>
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On Sat, Aug 16, 1997 at 10:22:37PM -0700, Online Impressions wrote: > > Is there a command that will tell me if a file exists and if so where it > can be found? Yes. > I have been using "ls -R |grep filename" to determine if a file > exists but the trouble is if it does this command fails to tell me > where it is. It's also not exactly fast. If you're looking for an executable, 'which' should tell you where it is. Otherwise, use 'locate'. By default, the locate database is rebuilt every week with the cron job /etc/weekly, so if you turn your machine off at night it won't get updated. Look in /etc/weekly to see how to rebuild it manually. Greg
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