On Sunday 13 February 2005 07:07, Jim Sabatke wrote:
James Knott wrote:
John Sowden wrote:
Thanks, but I looked for the locate command several years ago. It seems that locate is not installed in any of the suse distros that I have used, currently 8.2. I tried it again just now, to be sure and got a command not found, including under user root.
You have to install the findutils-locate package.
And run updatedb (as root) before running it. Good idea to put updatedb in cron to run in off hours.
Jim
Thanks all for the find/locate help. I found locate (as was advised, it was under a different name), and ran updatedb as root, not user. I didn't see this reference in the man page. I also wrote an alias for find (locate to come) as follows, if it helps anyone else: alias findd='find / -iname '$1' 2>dev/null' It seems that the whole documentation issue for linux is lacking. The doc tells 90% of the story, and I end up going to the net search out that last 10%, including bothering all of you helpful people. As programs are written, or updated, a new type of doc should be created that is a superset of the other 3? (man, howto, info), so they become either irrelevant or very tercnnical for the more advanced user (e.g. man pages). When I write foxpro/dos apps in my office, I listen closely to the users, as their "mistakes" are my programming/documentation errors. Well, I have another stupid question, but I will save that for a different subject line. Thanks again, John