Finding where Python is on a Unix server through Telnet?
Andrew M. Kuchling
akuchlin at mems-exchange.org
Sun Jan 2 13:59:15 EST 2000
Donn Cave <donn at oz.net> writes:
> "locate" is a new one on me, not available on Digital UNIX.
It's a GNU program, so probably most common on the free Unixes. A
cron job runs a script that builds an index of all the files on the
machine, and the "locate" command then looks through this index.
Source at ftp.mkintraweb.com/pub/linux/slocate/.
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