[SunRescue] Locate for Solaris ??

Ken Caruso rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri May 18 18:50:50 CDT 2001


I dont think so, if I am not mistaken which takes the string and looks for
the file it would execute (by looking in your path etc...), where as
locate keeps a database/index of all the files and dirs, and searches the
index.

Ken

On Fri, 18 May 2001, Eric Hall wrote:

> Ken Caruso wrote:
> > 
> > Does any one know if there is a locate or locate type utility for solaris
> > (such as on BSD).
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Ken Caruso
> > 
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> Would that be the which command?
> 
> $ which perl
> /usr/bin/perl
> $ which ls
> /usr/bin/ls
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