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From: Andrew Markebo <andrew DOT markebo AT telia DOT com>
Subject: Re: Installation
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:08:55 +0100
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/ "Scott Taylor" <scott DOT taylor AT 4i-dotcom DOT com> 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
|
-- 
 The eye of the beholder rests on the beauty!


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