Subject: Re: Installation
From: Andrew Markebo <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:08:55 +0100

/ "Scott Taylor" <[email-masked]> wrote:
| In the /bin directory are all the bash commands that you use in a typical
| unix shell...correct? Then why can I use a command like "ls -l" and not
| "locate" which both reside in /bin?
|
[...]
|
| $ man ls
| BASH: man: command not found

have you installed the man-package?

|
| $ locate cygwin.bat
| locate: /usr/var/locatedb: no such file or directory

locate needa its database to be built before running, I think it is
updatedb that does this.. To do a quick search now, you can use find.

| Does this make sense now?

Yep :-)

    /Andy

|
| Scott
|
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