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Lord Raiden

2008-08-19 17:18

Is there any chance of getting locate and find on os2008?

I'm wondering if it's possible to get the locate and find commands added to OS2008. Those are hugely useful and I use them a lot in regular Linux and BSD.

BrentDC

2008-08-19 17:28

Re: Is there any chance of getting locate and find on os2008?

I think find is already there?

Code:

~ $ find --help

BusyBox v1.6.1 (2008-05-22 10:32:35 EEST) multi-call binary



Usage: find [PATH...] [EXPRESSION]

terrencegf

2008-08-19 18:29

Re: Is there any chance of getting locate and find on os2008?

"mlocate" is available from the "debfarm" repository. Works fine on diablo.

One-click Repository Install:

http://gronmayer.com/it/picts/install_button_small.png
debfarm

Application Manager Repository Info:

Code:

Catalog name: debfarm

Web address:  http://p.quinput.eu/debfarm/

Distribution: chinook

Components:   user

bluesubaru

2008-08-19 19:12

Re: Is there any chance of getting locate and find on os2008?

I use these scripts to find files easily. I run updatedb every so often to update the database; and run "locate matchingtext" to find file or directory names that match "matchingtext"

updatedb.sh

Code:

find / -print > /media/mmc2/db/locate.db

locate.sh

Code:

## script to find file from database created with updatedb.sh



grep "$1" /media/mmc2/db/locate.db | more

Benson

2008-08-19 19:57

Re: Is there any chance of getting locate and find on os2008?

That's busybox find, which is notably deficient vs. GNU find. I think I've seen a couple of GNU find packages; one dumped it with the name find with the prefix /usr/something/, and the other installed it with prefix /usr/, but named it gnufind. Don't have either of them on now, though...

Edit: And it becomes apparent that terrencegf already posted this; guess I scrolled right past somehow:
As for locate, mlocate is available from debfarm -- .install for the repo is http://www.gronmayer.com/it/dl.php?id=205

Lord Raiden

2008-08-19 23:57

Re: Is there any chance of getting locate and find on os2008?

Well, I tried bluesubaru's method and got errors about too many files open. As for terrencegf, I'll have to give that a spin later.

bluesubaru

2008-08-20 02:13

Re: Is there any chance of getting locate and find on os2008?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lord Raiden (Post 215553)

Well, I tried bluesubaru's method and got errors about too many files open. As for terrencegf, I'll have to give that a spin later.

Yeah, I get that if I run updatedb when I am not root. Try it after becoming root.

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