[nycbug-talk] Updatedb

[Jesse Callaway]

I see a whole host of replies. But I'll chime in.... use a more 
primitive and more powerful tool called 'find'

find / -name updatedb

also check out your cron jobs. There's probably a weekly job to run 
locate.updatedb in there.

On Oct 12, 2004, at 12:56 PM, Joshua S. Freeman wrote:

> Can someone kindly tell me where the command 'updatedb' lives on 
> freebsd 4
> stable? I need to update the 'locate' database.
>
> TIA,
>
> J.
>
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