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Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 10:24:15 -0400
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From: Roland Glenn McIntosh <roland AT steeltorch DOT com>
Subject: Re: locate and it's db
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It was I who came up with that dirty substitute.  It's worth noting that it doesn't do anything the *real* updatedb script does like pruning and ignoring /tmp and the like.  Also, you'll have to mkdir /usr/var in your cygwin installation unless you set the LOCATE_PATH environment variable.

-rgm

At 04:54 PM 05.15.2002 -0700, Ghosty wrote:
>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




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