Re: File Indexing


Subject: Re: File Indexing
From: Paul J. Lucas (pauljlucas@mac.com)
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 08:36:48 MST


On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Drew Lane wrote:

> Does Linux do something similar to the Mac OS File indexing?

        There's a cron job that runs to make the "whatis" database for
        the apropos(1) command. I personally turn it off because
        apropos is lame. I use SWISH++ to do full-text indexes of my
        manual pages instead.

        When in doubt, look in /etc/crontab, /etc/cron.*/*

        - Paul



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