[ardour-dev] Include Directories

Taybin Rutkin taybin at earthlink.net
Mon Apr 30 08:34:05 PDT 2007


Just as an information point, locate is included on OS X, but you have to run and/or schedule to run /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb if you want to use it.

Taybin

-----Original Message-----
>From: Joe Hartley <jh at brainiac.com>
>Sent: Apr 30, 2007 11:03 AM
>To: ardour-dev at lists.ardour.org
>Subject: Re: [ardour-dev] Include Directories
>
>On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:51:52 -0000
>"John Emmas" <johne53 at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Patrice - that was quite useful,
>> 
>> Just out of interest, what is 'slocate'?  Is it a standard utility or 
>> something you downloaded from somewhere (I don't seem to have it).
>
>slocate and its non-secure partner, locate are, I believe, RedHat/Fedora
>specific utilities.  There's a program that runs out of cron that indexes
>the filenames on the machine, and once that db exists, will quickly tell
>you what files and/or directories contain a particular string.
>
>I've never seen it on an AIX or HP/UX machine, and all my Linux boxen are
>RedHat variants.
>
>-- 
>======================================================================
>       Joe Hartley - UNIX/network Consultant - jh at brainiac.com
>Without deviation from the norm, "progress" is not possible. - FZappa
>_______________________________________________
>ardour-dev mailing list
>ardour-dev at lists.ardour.org
>http://lists.ardour.org/listinfo.cgi/ardour-dev-ardour.org




More information about the Ardour-Dev mailing list