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August 7, 2006
A new MacOS X install has no locate database. If you don't want to wait for the weekly cron to run, do this:
ln -s /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb /usr/bin/updatedb updatedb
Now the 'locate' command will actually return something!
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By: JT <jt at imen dot org dot uk>
Website: http://www.imen.org.uk
Posted: 2 months ago
That's been bugging me for a while: Locate works fine, but when I just download/install a bunch of files and want to find one in particular, can I ? No. But now I can...
Thanks
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it's the little things...
By: Michael Stelly <mjstelly at gmail dot com>
Posted: 3 months ago
geekly overengineering...
problem: ask a geek what time it is?
answer: tells you how a watch works.
i just wanted to know how to find updatedb so i could use it. everyone but you wanted to explain the history and gory details unix updatedb command. geesh.
thanks loads!