[SunHELP] use GNU or Solaris utils ?

[Scanlan, Brian (5188)]

GNU locate works better than find, as it works totally
different than find. GNU locate is definitely worth
installing on your system - It's pretty handy!

(It runs a find on specified filesystems once a night and
stores to a DB, which locate looks up when run).

I usually have a load of the GNU utilities installed
on my system in /opt/gnu, certainly worth having around,
though they're sometimes feature bloated and don't follow the
syntax of the trusty old standardised Solaris utils. :)
(tar springs to mind...)

Definitely don't _replace_ your OS utilities with GNU utils,
just have them elsewhere.

Brian.

-----Original Message-----
From: Eliezer Ramm [mailto:eramm at nomadiq.com]
Sent: 16 January 2001 15:49
To: 'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'
Subject: [SunHELP] use GNU or Solaris utils ?


HI,

Is there any reason to replace the Solaris 8 file or find utilities w/ the
GNU packages ? GNU 'locate' works faster than 'find' but i am not sure i
need to replace other the other utils. Do admins generally replace the
default utils w/ GNU utils ?

eramm
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