Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 02:28:35 +0200 From: Marius Gedminas To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: updatedb Message-ID: <20010406022835.B16090@gintaras> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-13 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: ; from John.Velman@HSC.com on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 04:52:53PM -0700 X-URL: http://ice.dammit.lt/~mgedmin/ On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 04:52:53PM -0700, John.Velman@HSC.com wrote: > I recently completely re-installed cygwin from > scratch since my installation had become > corrupted somehow. I have locate, but no > updatedb. > > ? My feelings exactly. You can download the find-utils source package from a CygWin mirror, compile and install it, and then you'll have updatedb. However I would prefer slocate. Case-insensitive searches are a must on Windows, and regexp searches are also a (very) nice bonus. Unfortunately slocate-2.5 doesn't build OOTB. I've made it work and mailed my changes to slocate maintainer a couple of weeks ago, but so far received no reply. Marius Gedminas -- As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple