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- 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>
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- References: <1993Jan8.050552.11116@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
- Date: 11 Jan 1993 03:07:58 UTC
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- In article <EWERLID.93Jan8222423@ida.docs.uu.se> you write:
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- I tried mailing this, but it bounced.
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- >A very useful command is `locate' or `fast find'.
- >Just run `updatedb' at regular intervalls.
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- 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.
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- >Anyway, rather than asking the net where a file in my own filessytem
- >is I'd run a brute force 'find / -print | grep xterm'. :-)
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- Actually, the '-print' is superflous, just ' find . | grep xterm' should
- work. And, that's pretty fast in finding files, too.
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- David Fox
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