On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:31:38AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > > Still you have to admit if there was an inteligent way of moving from text > to binary format (like cron??) it would keep two camps happy for a while...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ time dlocate -s dlocate Package: dlocate Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: utils Installed-Size: 30 Maintainer: Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 0.5 Depends: findutils, bash, grep-dctrl (>= 0.11) Conflicts: dpkg (= 1.4.1.7), dpkg (= 1.4.1.8), dpkg (= 1.4.1.9) Conffiles: /etc/cron.daily/dlocate 77789cc5c29621e87067d265d46df68f Description: fast alternative to dpkg -L and dpkg -S uses GNU locate to greatly speed up finding out which package a file belongs to (i.e. a very fast dpkg -S). many other uses, including options to view all files in a package, calculate disk space used, view and check md5sums, list man pages, etc. real 0m0.222s user 0m0.180s sys 0m0.030s [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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