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There are two things you can do.<BR>
<BR>
1. install the updatedb package<BR>
That will give you the same functionality as on RH<BR>
<BR>
2. use command line tools, although not as quick as the<BR>
updatedb (because updatedb keeps the data in a data file)<BR>
<BR>
a typical command line string would be:<BR>
<BR>
sudo find / -name <filename> -print<BR>
<BR>
on linux the -print is optional, I tend to put it in there as other<BR>
Unix variants do not automatically use the -print option.<BR>
You can also use wildcards in the <filename>, and also double-quotes<BR>
for special circumstances.<BR>
<BR>
sudo find / -name "some file*" -print<BR>
<BR>
use: man find<BR>
to get more information. The find command is VERY powerful and<BR>
can do much more than just print out the full path of the file it finds!<BR>
<BR>
Kevin Lane<BR>
<BR>
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 14:31, Mike Staver wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><I>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.</I></FONT></PRE>
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