command to show location

[Chris H]

Saw a command on here that shows where a program is installed. For the life of me can't remember what it was. Know it was important though

Along the lines of

?? wine

would return

/usr/lib/wine

Summat like that anyway.

Help?

Ta

[jedimaster]

there are quite a few

whereis wine

which wine

locate wine

The last one will find all files with wine but I think you are referring to the first one i.e. whereis

[loft306]

wow great commands -see you learn somthing new everyday

Also is there a list of commands on this site somewere or dose someone have a link to a list of commansd and what they do?

[big_k105]

do you mean this

http://www.this_site_does_not_exist/viewtopic.php?t=75

[CopperTop]

To use the locate command, the locate database must be less than 8 days old. To update it, su - to root, and issue updatedb...

[flw]

Which is why I prefer "find -name filename.ext" over locate. If the file is on your system it will find it. No worring about the db being updated or not.

[loft306]

Yes thats it

[jedimaster]

The resaon why I prefer locate over find is locate is much faster as it accesses the database rather than doing the search from scratch. I have a nice script to find files using find though.
You have to supply a starting point to search

#! /bin/bash

### Find a file in some search path

if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 [file name] [search path]"
exit 0
fi
find $2 -name \*$1\* -print

[sarumont]

To use the locate command, the locate database must be less than 8 days old. To update it, su - to root, and issue updatedb...

Or you can set a cron job to do it daily or weekly.

[Chris H]

Thanks to all, appreciated.