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Article #6007Re: Locate/fast-find (Was: Re: Shared lib X for 386bsd?)
From: David Fox
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 03:07
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 03:07
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In article <EWERLID.93Jan8222423@ida.docs.uu.se> you write: I tried mailing this, but it bounced. >A very useful command is `locate' or `fast find'. >Just run `updatedb' at regular intervalls. I have something similar, but probably not in the same format that locate can use. It's part of a 386bsd program 'fs' that shows all open files. There's a program 'fsmakedb' that makes a database of all files in the filesystem, and I run it as part of /etc/rc. >Anyway, rather than asking the net where a file in my own filessytem >is I'd run a brute force 'find / -print | grep xterm'. :-) Actually, the '-print' is superflous, just ' find . | grep xterm' should work. And, that's pretty fast in finding files, too. -- David Fox dfox@quack.sac.ca.us
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!ames!pacbell.com!UB.com!quack!dfox From: dfox@quack.sac.ca.us (David Fox) Subject: Re: Locate/fast-find (Was: Re: Shared lib X for 386bsd?) In-Reply-To: <EWERLID.93Jan8222423@ida.docs.uu.se> Message-ID: <fXOtCvR@quack.sac.ca.us> Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'. References: <1993Jan8.050552.11116@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> Date: 11 Jan 1993 03:07:58 UTC Lines: 25