From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Oct 5 16:39:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA02612 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 16:39:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay04.netaddress.usa.net (relay04.netaddress.usa.net [204.68.24.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA02607 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 16:39:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gekk0@usa.net) Received: (qmail 15905 invoked from network); 5 Oct 1998 23:39:40 -0000 Received: from www0a.netaddress.usa.net (204.68.24.30) by outbound.netaddress.usa.net with SMTP; 5 Oct 1998 23:39:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 9060 invoked by uid 60001); 5 Oct 1998 23:39:40 -0000 Message-ID: <19981005233940.9059.qmail@www0a.netaddress.usa.net> Received: from 199.190.198.20 by mail.netaddress.com via web-mailer(3.1) on Mon Oct 5 23:39:40 GMT 1998 Date: 5 Oct 98 16:39:40 PDT From: gekk0 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Re: First commands] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You can use 'whereis' on solaris...basically the same thing. regards, kevin One I was surprised to see on the list is "locate" -- I don't think I'd ever heard of it; I'm fairly certain I've never used it. (Just checked a Solaris 2.5 system; no such command. Maybe "locate" is FreeBSD (or 4.4 BSD) -specific?) I think that'll do for the nonce, david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 ____________________________________________________________________ Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message