What is the equivalent to locate command in KornShell?

I am using KornShell (ksh) and I need to know what开发者_JAVA技巧 is the command to search a file in the system?

I have used locate in bash looking for a similar one.

Kindly help.

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You can use "find" command to search for a particular file in the system. There are various option to search by name,size,time,etc You can refer to man find for more help.

E.g. find . -name abc will search abc file in the current directory and subdirectories

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locate is not a bash-internal command, it is an external program. Provided that /usr/bin/locate is installed and in your $PATH environment variable, it should work just the same in ksh.

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Try

which cmdName

and/or

whence cmdName

where of course, you replace cmdName with the command you are searching for.

which1 will searchs the $PATH variable, whilewhence` (if available on your system) searchs $PATH, aliases and functions.

I hope this helps.

P.S. as you appear to be a new user, if you get an answer that helps you please remember to use the check mark to accept the answer, and/or give it a + (or -) as a useful answer.

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old post but imho still important:

locate is not the same as find. locate keeps a database of filenames, in which it searches for the files. It is therefore faster but less up-to-date than find, which browses the actual directories on the fly.