[CLUE-Tech] Suse questions

[Kevin Lane]

There are two things you can do.

1. install the updatedb package
    That will give you the same functionality as on RH

2. use command line tools, although not as quick as the
    updatedb (because updatedb keeps the data in a data file)

a typical command line string would be:

sudo find / -name <filename> -print

on linux the -print is optional, I tend to put it in there as other
Unix variants do not automatically use the -print option.
You can also use wildcards in the <filename>, and also double-quotes
for special circumstances.

sudo find / -name "some file*" -print

use: man find
to get more information. The find command is VERY powerful and
can do much more than just print out the full path of the file it finds!

Kevin Lane

On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 14:31, Mike Staver wrote:

> I have a few more command based SuSE questions.  Again, I'm working with 
> 9.0 and on RedHat, the following commands work great:
> 
> updatedb
> locate somefile
> /usr/bin/rdate -s time.nist.gov
> 
> Without my ability to search using locate, or slocate, I have no idea 
> how I'm supposed to search the file system for files I'm looking for.  I 
> also can't seem to locate the rdate command, which I found to be very 
> handy with Red Hat to get my servers all synced up at the same time. 
> Does anyone who uses SuSE know what the equivalents would be? Most of 
> the documentation for SuSE I have found on line is in German, and that 
> doesn't do a lot for me.
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