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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA6660 ; Mon, 11 Jan 93 22:15:08 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!sunic!chalmers.se!news.chalmers.se!pao From: pao@cd.chalmers.se (Per Anders Olausson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Locate/fast-find (Was: Re: Shared lib X for 386bsd?) Message-ID: <C0u7rz.158@news.chalmers.se> Date: 14 Jan 93 09:31:10 GMT References: <fXOtCvR@quack.sac.ca.us> <15847@lupine.ncd.com> <carlp.726981966@frigg> Sender: news@news.chalmers.se Organization: Chalmers Computer Society Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: sponsz.cd.chalmers.se Comment-To: carlp@frigg.isc-br.com In article <carlp.726981966@frigg> carlp@frigg.isc-br.com (Carl Paukstis) writes: >Anyhow - on both my home BSD system and some heavily-used SYSV development >systems I administer here at work, I run a little cron task every >night that does a "find / -print >/ALLfiles". I've aliased "locate" to >a bash function that greps /ALLfiles. It ain't up-to-the-minute, but >it beats fumbling around and waiting for interactive "find" sessions. Please note that for 386bsd the proper way to handle this is to run: /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb periodically. (via cron...) The database it creates will be in: /var/db/locate.database Hope this helps anyone out there. pao