From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 7 8:17:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com [66.66.72.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06D1A37B404 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 08:17:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A2AD0901A21; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 11:17:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 11:17:45 -0500 From: mpd To: Philip Paeps Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Differences between FreeBSD and Mandrake Message-ID: <20020107111745.A1789@rochester.rr.com> References: <016a01c1976f$1244b020$0401a8c0@Hewey> <20020107170358.B561@beastie.paeps.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020107170358.B561@beastie.paeps.cx>; from philip@paeps.cx on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 05:03:59PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 05:03:59PM +0100, Philip Paeps wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 06:33:04AM -0500, Allen May wrote: > > > I use "locate" a lot.. I could find "locate" on my FreeBSD machine.. > > what's the equivelent? > > I'm not exactly familiar with the function of 'locate' but 'whereis' will tell > you where a thing is in your $PATH, and find(1) is still the old standby if > you've lost something. % which locate /usr/bin/locate % The database is updated once each week (according to locate.updatedb(8)) so you may wish to change that. locate compiles information into a database using find, and then queries that database when a locate request is issued. RTFM for more info. > > - Philip > mike -- ___________________________________________________________ "TRAGIC! HEY, WHY DON'T WE LOOK AT YOUR WORK AND I WILL GIVE YOU SOME TIPS!!" - Mr. Nutty from "THE MR NUTTY SCHOOL OF PLACEMAT DESIGN" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message