locate and it's db

Ghosty uv_light@hotmail.com
Wed May 15 22:38:00 GMT 2002


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.

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"Michael Kunze" <mrspock@chaos-inc.de> wrote in message
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> 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?
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> michael
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