Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: "Ghosty" Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: locate and it's db Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 16:54:18 -0700 Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-63-207-239-48.dsl.chic01.pacbell.net X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1021506831 20541 63.207.239.48 (15 May 2002 23:53:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet AT main DOT gmane DOT org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 23:53:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 try this: alias updatedb='find / -name "*" | /usr/libexec/frcode > /usr/var/locatedb &' I found this somewhere, I forgot where, so I can not give the credit to the author. -- Ghosty "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners" - Ernst Jan Plugge "Michael Kunze" wrote in message news:abu1ff$sq7$1 AT main DOT gmane DOT org... > hi, > i found some posts about it but nothing with a satisfieing answer. > is it possible to create the db that is needed for locate? > > michael > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/