linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] NEWLY INSTALLED APPLICATIONS

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 09:00:36PM -0500, J wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 19:12, Clayton Bonser
> <claybonser@netspace.net.au> wrote:
> > I'm going to have a stab at answering this. Those who know are welcome
> > to jump in and correct me.
>
>
> I'll also add that you can usually find programs like this too:
>
> bladernr@asuka:~$ locate egrep
> /bin/bzegrep
> /bin/egrep
> /bin/zegrep
> /usr/share/man/man1/bzegrep.1.gz
>
<snip>
Note that to do that, you have to run the updatedb command. Many
systems have it done by default as a cronjob, but you might have to do
it manually.

The locate command goes through a database that is created by the
aforementioned updatedb command, therefore, it is very fast, but only as
current as the last database.

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