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From: othman@ntrc25.ntrc.ntu.ac.sg (othman (EEE/Div 4))
Subject: Re: Locate/fast-find (Was: Re: Shared lib X for 386bsd?)
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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 02:13:19 GMT
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Per Anders Olausson (pao@cd.chalmers.se) wrote:
: 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
I tried running this but there are error messages:
# /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
sort: unrecognized option `-T'
Usage: sort [-cmus] [-t separator] [-o output-file] [-bdfiMnr] [+POS1 [-POS2]]
[-k POS1[,POS2]] [file...]
sort: unrecognized option `-T'
Usage: sort [-cmus] [-t separator] [-o output-file] [-bdfiMnr] [+POS1 [-POS2]]
[-k POS1[,POS2]] [file...]
sort: unrecognized option `-T'
Usage: sort [-cmus] [-t separator] [-o output-file] [-bdfiMnr] [+POS1 [-POS2]]
[-k POS1[,POS2]] [file...]
locate: updatedb failed
Anyone had patched this program.
:
: periodically. (via cron...)
:
: The database it creates will be in:
:
: /var/db/locate.database
:
: Hope this helps anyone out there.
:
: pao
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