[PLUG] Pine Question...
Rich Shepard
rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Mon Nov 4 21:39:54 UTC 2002
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Tyler F. Creelan wrote:
> How is 'locate' related to whereis? I thought whereis searched a generic
> list of directories, and locate used a special database.
>
> 1. which - searches PATH
> 2. whereis - searches generic list
> 3. locate - searches locatedb
Tyler,
You're probably absolutely correct. I thought that the locatedb was built
using the whereis command. Ergo, they were equivalent. Apparently my
thoughts were incorrect.
Mea culpa!
Rich
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