On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 05:18:32PM +1100, Darryl Harvey wrote:
> You could also use the locate command
> 
> locate j | grep jstar   will find the exact file for you.
[...]

Of course, this will only work if the locate database is up to date,
i.e. updatedb got run either by cron or manually. On most non-24/7
machines, chances are that the cron job isn't run frequently (it's set
to 01:00h as per default), which means the database would be out of sync
and not much good.

Thomas
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