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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: newbie: where are gcc info files?
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 13:46:49 -0800
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To: Kinney Baughman <krb@xx.acs.appstate.edu>
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Kinney Baughman wrote:
> But what I've done each time I've installed a new *nix OS, is issue a
> "ls -lR > INDEX" command from the root directory.  This gives you a

FreeBSD does essentially the same thing in a more automated (and
concise) fashion once a week, building the locate(1) database.
See the man page for more details.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project