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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 11:26:09 -0400
To: "Gerald T. Freymann" <gerry@eagle.ca>
From: Terry Zink <tzink@metrocon.com>
Subject: Re: Libraries and things a file is linked to?
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I think he's looking for ldd binary
not locate
example "ldd bash"

At 11:08 AM 4/19/01 -0400, you wrote:
> > I remember seeing a command that would show what
> > files or libraries a certain binary is linked to.
>
>  Um, that would simply be the "locate" command would it?
>
>  For instance,
>
>locate libcrypto
>
>  (which goes on and on on one of my production boxes)
>
>If your machine has been running for over a week, it would have rebuilt the
>locate database for you already. But if you've been messing with the box,
>you can manually rebuild the locate database with:
>
>/usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
>
>Hope that helps.
>
>-gf
>
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