On 08/20/2011 05:17 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
> "which" is a shell alias in bash rather than a binary somewhere. Anyway
> you can always use "find" but yes locate is a good tool.
Actually, if you check, "which" is an alias that expands to a call to
/bin/which with a set of switches that will give the m
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Larry Brower wrote:
> On 08/20/2011 12:23 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> On 08/19/2011 09:56 PM, Lars Eighner wrote:
>>> Evidently linux does
>>> not have which and apropos is not extremely helpful.
>>
>> Yes it does. Well, *my* computer has it and I don't remember doing
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 17:20:08 +0200, RH (Reindl) wrote:
>
>
> Am 20.08.2011 17:16, schrieb Michael Schwendt:
> > On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:58:58 -0700, CW (Craig) wrote:
> >
> >> # rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/which
> >> which-2.19-5.fc12.i686
> >>
> >> # yum remove which
> >> << snip >>
> >> Remo
Am 20.08.2011 17:16, schrieb Michael Schwendt:
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:58:58 -0700, CW (Craig) wrote:
>
>> # rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/which
>> which-2.19-5.fc12.i686
>>
>> # yum remove which
>> << snip >>
>> Remove 356 Package(s)
>>
>> Installed size: 2.1 G
>> Is this ok [y/N]: n
>> E
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:58:58 -0700, CW (Craig) wrote:
> # rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/which
> which-2.19-5.fc12.i686
>
> # yum remove which
> << snip >>
> Remove 356 Package(s)
>
> Installed size: 2.1 G
> Is this ok [y/N]: n
> Exiting on user Command
> Complete!
>
> almost impossible to
> 1) As soon as you get to a command prompt run updatedb. Evidently linux does
> not have which and apropos is not extremely helpful. An example of why you
> need locate: apparently the console fonts are in a (sub)directory called
> kbd. You'd pass over that a hundred times before you would think
On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 03:26 -0500, Lars Eighner wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Tim wrote:
>
> > I think a language barrier came across in your message. Did you mean
> > it's also not installing which and apropos commands? Or did you mean
> > they're not useful until an updatedb has been run?
>
>
2011/8/20, Lars Eighner :
[...]
> I've done 4 or 5 various installs today, and at least one of them did not
> include 'which' - perhaps it was the minimal one. Apropos seemed to work in
> all of them but was not very helpful. locate has been the most helpful so
> far. If you know part of the na
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Tim wrote:
> I think a language barrier came across in your message. Did you mean
> it's also not installing which and apropos commands? Or did you mean
> they're not useful until an updatedb has been run?
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting differ
On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 23:56 -0500, Lars Eighner wrote:
> 1) As soon as you get to a command prompt run updatedb. Evidently
> linux does not have which and apropos is not extremely helpful.
Updatedb was always run as a CRON job, not immediately after
installations, nor updates. So if you don't wa
On 08/20/2011 01:32 AM, Larry Brower wrote:
> On 08/20/2011 12:23 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> On 08/19/2011 09:56 PM, Lars Eighner wrote:
>>> Evidently linux does
>>> not have which and apropos is not extremely helpful.
>
>> Yes it does. Well, *my* computer has it and I don't remember doing
>> anythi
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On 08/20/2011 12:23 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 08/19/2011 09:56 PM, Lars Eighner wrote:
>> Evidently linux does
>> not have which and apropos is not extremely helpful.
>
> Yes it does. Well, *my* computer has it and I don't remember doing
> anything
On 08/19/2011 09:56 PM, Lars Eighner wrote:
> Evidently linux does
> not have which and apropos is not extremely helpful.
Yes it does. Well, *my* computer has it and I don't remember doing
anything special to get it.
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Only making slight progress so far, but here are some hints for others who
may come my way:
1) As soon as you get to a command prompt run updatedb. Evidently linux does
not have which and apropos is not extremely helpful. An example of why you
need locate: apparently the console fonts are in a (
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