which & locate

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 01:28:09PM +0200, Alex Vinokur wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Sheppard [mailto:msheppard@climax.co.uk]
>> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 11:15 AM
>> To: 'Sylvain Petreolle'; Alex Vinokur; Cygwin Mailing List
>> Subject: RE: which & locate
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>> Try:
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>>   locate */ls.exe
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>$ which ls
>/usr/bin/ls
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>$ which ls.exe
>/usr/bin/ls.exe
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>$ locate */ls.exe
>/bin/ls.exe
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>$ locate */ls
>/usr/share/irc/help/note/ls

which != locate.  locate has not been especially adapted to understand
the windows .exe convention.  which has been, obviously.

So, as others have indicated use "locate ls.exe".

cgf

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