OK got locate working, but there seems to be something wrong in general with calling commands.
"ls -l" works fine but... "ls -l | more" does not Also, I wanted to install cygipc but it gives me the following: $ tar -C/ -xjf cygipc-1.13-2.tar.bz2 tar (child): cygipc.1.13-2.tar.bz2: cannot open: no such file or directory tar (child): error not recoverable: exiting now tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors The file "tar.exe" is in my bin directory...why can't it see it? Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Markebo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 10:08 AM Subject: Re: Installation > / "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 > | > -- > The eye of the beholder rests on the beauty! > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
