/usr/local/bin/search ??

Joseph Sinclair plug-discussion at stcaz.net
Thu Jun 27 16:16:24 MST 2013


It's listed as owned by minsystem and ubuntu-base on the two systems I tested, but both are a bit older (1 and 2 years respectively) installs.

On 06/27/2013 04:10 PM, Dazed_75 wrote:
> No such file on my Ubuntu 12.04.2
> 
> In fact,/usr/local/bin/ is totally empty so it like is a result from
> something you added to or ran on the system.  Take a look at the
> datestamps, ownership and permissions
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Joseph Sinclair
> <plug-discussion at stcaz.net>wrote:
> 
>> In most cases that's part of a full-text search facility.  In Ubuntu and
>> derivatives (like Mint) it's part of the core system.
>>
>> The usage is as follows (for example):
>> search for "Some Text String" -c -s
>> which would provide file names where you may find the text string you were
>> looking for.
>>
>> In debian derivatives the following command will tell you what package
>> installed a particular file:
>> dpkg -S "filename"  (e.g. dpkg -S /usr/local/bin/search)
>>
>>
>>
>> On 06/27/2013 03:37 PM, joe at actionline.com wrote:
>>> What is this and how might one use it?
>>>
>>> I found this on my system. There is no man page for it.
>>> A google search turns up nothing (that makes sense to me).
>>> I've tried several arguments and options, but each one
>>> just starts a long string of directory/filenames that I
>>> don't understand.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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