Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com Path: not-for-mail From: Andrew Markebo Subject: Re: Installation Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:08:55 +0100 Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <004301c2bd8f$114c9600$5e2b7ad5@workstation1> <010601c2bd90$cc22fae0$78d96f83@POMELLO> <00d701c2bdb0$af356100$5e2b7ad5@workstation1> <021501c2bdb3$02afda70$78d96f83@POMELLO> <002301c2bdfc$096027a0$d9297bd5@workstation1> <00ed01c2be0d$93d72d00$d9297bd5@workstation1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090013 (Oort Gnus v0.13) Emacs/20.7 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8vhB6utzrEYSNi1vn/gtIJqGe24= / "Scott Taylor" wrote: | In the /bin directory are all the bash commands that you use in a typical | unix shell...correct? Then why can I use a command like "ls -l" and not | "locate" which both reside in /bin? | [...] | | $ man ls | BASH: man: command not found have you installed the man-package? | | $ locate cygwin.bat | locate: /usr/var/locatedb: no such file or directory locate needa its database to be built before running, I think it is updatedb that does this.. To do a quick search now, you can use find. | Does this make sense now? Yep :-) /Andy | | Scott | -- The eye of the beholder rests on the beauty! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/