From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Oct 6 05:40:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA09291 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 05:40:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fire.dreams.eu.org (fire.dreams.eu.org [194.89.15.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA09073 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 05:40:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vipe@fire.dreams.eu.org) Received: (qmail 21810 invoked by uid 502); 6 Oct 1998 12:39:56 -0000 Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 15:39:56 +0300 (EET DST) From: Viljo Hakala X-Sender: vipe@fire.dreams.eu.org To: David Wolfskill cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: First commands In-Reply-To: <199810051735.KAA00651@pau-amma.whistle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, David Wolfskill wrote: > > One I was surprised to see on the list is "locate" -- I don't think > I'd ever heard of it; I'm fairly certain I've never used it. (Just > checked a Solaris 2.5 system; no such command. Maybe "locate" is > FreeBSD (or 4.4 BSD) -specific?) > Locate comes from 4.4. BSD tree. You may have found on Sun platforms that there are 'which' and 'whereis' commands, which are both similar to 'locate'. t. vh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message