Danek,

Thanks for pointing out;
Indeed now I remember slocate on some Linux distros too :-)
Running pfexec updatedb at the moment!

Thx,

Erwin

Danek Duvall wrote:
> Erwin Panen wrote:
>
>   
>> Totally new to OSOL but have some Linux background.
>> I'm missing some commands such as locate.
>>     
>
> While OpenSolaris makes GNU findutils available, GNU locate isn't built and
> bundled with it.  Instead, we provide slocate, in the package SUNWslocate.
> Sadly "pkg search locate" doesn't return it, as it neither provides a file
> called "locate" nor has "locate" in its package description.
>
> "pkg install SUNWslocate" should get you the functionality, though I'll
> note that it doesn't deliver either a service or a cron job that creates
> and maintains the database; you'll have to do that for yourself.
>
> Danek
>   
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