Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:31:13 -0700 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Files in /etc containing empty VCSId header Message-ID: <20210611003113.GA9021@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1uYz75BBTf6mMrW-3M512p3zKC-GpgRJRA1APJNeRN%2Bew@mail.gmail.com> References: <ac82878fbd635cbdf19707e7daabe15cf753ea0f.camel@freebsd.org> <F8A33180-6F1B-4F81-84E6-286DEF78EDE7@grem.de> <CAN6yY1uYz75BBTf6mMrW-3M512p3zKC-GpgRJRA1APJNeRN%2Bew@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 03:26:58PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 2:02 AM Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de> wrote: > > > > > On 9. Jun 2021, at 01:15, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 2021-06-08 at 15:11 -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > >>> On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 09:41:34 +0000 > > >>> Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote: > > >>> > > >>>> On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 01:58:01PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: > > >>>>> Sometimes it's a real interesting exercise to figure out where > > >>>>> a > > >>>>> file on your runtime system comes from in the source world. > > >> > > >> There is a command for that which does or use to do a pretty > > >> decent job of it called whereis(1). > > >> > > > > > > revolution > whereis ntp.conf > > > ntp.conf: > > > revolution > whereis netif > > > netif: > > > > That line might make it to a shirt one day: > > > > > revolution > whereis services > > > > ;) > > Michael > > > Just to clarify for those not willing or able to RTFM, it only works for > executables, not conf files or libraries. It reports the location of the > executable, the man page and the port location, if it is a port. For those > who did RTFM, it is wrong. It claims that it reports on the location of the > source, but that is not the case as far as I know. I have never seen it > return anything from /usr/src. > > whereis cc > cc: /usr/bin/cc /usr/share/man/man1/cc.1.gz > > whereis postfix > postfix: /usr/local/sbin/postfix /usr/local/man/man1/postfix.1.gz > /usr/ports/mail/postfix I should probably just lurk, but I believe the command that some are looking for is ident(1). This command is, of course, broken by the lost of $FreeBSD$ expansion. -- Steve
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