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Date:      Tue, 6 Oct 1998 15:39:56 +0300 (EET DST)
From:      Viljo Hakala <vipe@terafox.fi>
To:        David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: First commands
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.96.981006153655.21725B-100000@fire.dreams.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <199810051735.KAA00651@pau-amma.whistle.com>

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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
  


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