On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 08:56:29AM -0500, Mark Mealman wrote: > On Tue, 07 Jul 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote:
> >man -k keyword is much more usefull ;) > > How do you build the database for man -k? On the systems I've installed(RH, > I'm > currently waiting for Bo to arrive) man-k wouldn't bring up any entries. um um....I am not sure.... man -k just works for me... > > > >3) check out: find, locate, grep > >check this out...lets say I am looking for .jpg files throughout my > >entire system: > >$ locate .jpg > >/usr/doc/dhelp/debian.jpg > >/usr/doc/info2www/infodoc.jpg > > Side note: > > locate uses a "database" of filenames created by updatedb, so recent additions > to your box may not show up using a locate command. true...forgot to mention that... > find actually does an immediate search of the filesystem, but it can take a > minute or two where a locate tosses back the results more quickly. yes I know...but I can never get find to give me what I want... at BEST I can "find ." and get everything under . actually...ok .... find .|grep jpg - works even better than > >$ locate .jpg|grep `pwd` > grep is a useful filter, but Unix has quite a few others that can be just as > useful. You might have a /usr/doc/textutils***/ directory that has a README > that explains a few of them. yea yea I know...but I like grep...and I can actually get results with grep almost every time :) > For ex/ > > locate .jpg | wc -l ahhh good old wc ...very very usefull > or locate .jpg | grep 'nicole' | sort | pr -2 -h "Pictures of Nicole" show off :) -Steve -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
