/ "Scott Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| In the /bin directory are all the bash commands that you use in a typical
| unix shell...correct? Then why can I use a command like "ls -l" and not
| "locate" which both reside in /bin?
|
[...]
|
| $ man ls
| BASH: man: command not found
have you installed the man-package?
|
| $ locate cygwin.bat
| locate: /usr/var/locatedb: no such file or directory
locate needa its database to be built before running, I think it is
updatedb that does this.. To do a quick search now, you can use find.
| Does this make sense now?
Yep :-)
/Andy
|
| Scott
|
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