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- From: ewerlid@ida.docs.uu.se (Ove Ewerlid)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux
- Subject: Locate/fast-find (Was: Re: Shared lib X for 386bsd?)
- Date: 8 Jan 93 22:24:23
- Organization: University of Uppsala, Sweden
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- References: <1993Jan8.050552.11116@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
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- In-reply-to: othman@ntrc25.ntrc.ntu.ac.sg's message of Fri, 8 Jan 1993 05:05:52 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan8.050552.11116@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> othman@ntrc25.ntrc.ntu.ac.sg (othman (EEE/Div 4)) writes:
- > I tried to compile X utilities especially xterm but I cannot even find the
- > sources despite having the X11r5 distribution. Which directory does
- > xterm belong to?
-
- A very useful command is `locate' or `fast find'.
- Just run `updatedb' at regular intervalls.
-
- `locate' uses a data base built by `updatedb' to quickly
- locate a particular file name.
-
- E.g.
-
- bash$ locate xterm
- /usr/X11R5/usr/X386/bin/xterm
- bash$
-
- I don't have the full X11 dist so theres no source!
-
- (GNU'S locate/updatedb comes with the Linux SLS dist.)
-
- Perhaps I'm stating the obvious here ...
- Anyway, rather than asking the net where a file in my own filessytem
- is I'd run a brute force 'find / -print | grep xterm'. :-)
- To be fair, the question was just a fraction of the original posting.
-