Both /usr/bin/locate and /usr/bin/slocate are part of the slocate package. The current version is slocate-2.6-2mdk. After installing it, you might want to run slocate. Knowing that this happens as a daily cronjob, I usually run /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron to have slocate run with the normal options.
At 05:32 AM 5/17/02, you wrote: > >Hello List > > > >I have just installed MDK 8.2 in VMware and cannot find where >wmware-linux-tools are located (after doing the preliminary install from >vmware itself. In every previous linux distro that I have used I would have >used "locate wmware-linux-tools". However, for some reason I cannot fathom, >that wonderful tool (i.e. locate) has been left out and "find" is hardly a >reasonable substitute. I just finished reading 3 pages of docs on "find" and >it seems a little...complex. > > > >2 Questions: > >1) Is there a reasonable substitute for "locate" other than "find"? > >2) Does anyone know where the install.sh script for vmware-linux-tools gets >burried on 8.2? > > > >TT > > > >There are other programs like whereis, slocate(oops! that is actually >locate), and find should be did like so: > >find /dir -name 'my.slf' -print > >substitute /dir for the directory you are trying to look in and it will >recursively read every sub folder in that directory tree. Of course replace >my.slf with the search that you are seeking (ie *.bin, mandrake-re*, and >README) Don't forget the single " ' " quotes. Always leave -print as is if >you want it to print it's query information to the screen. >-- >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Altoine B >Maximum Time Unlimited >Chicago Based and Operated >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >"It's in process": > So wrapped up in red tape that the situation is almost hopeless. >--------------------------- >2.4.18-6mdk >Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Bluebird) for i586 >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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