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Originally posted by Kumado
only way I gonna figger it out is by asking.....
Also, try the documentation:
Code:
man man
man info
ls /usr/share/doc/packages/
http://www.tldp.org
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how do I update my machine so whereis finds new installed files?
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Whereis searches for all files on the current $PATH.
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Locate is not on a couple machines I have, is it the same as whereis?
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No;
locate finds all files through an indexed database,
whereis just looks in the current path (also see
which).
To update the current database:
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also, is there a command that would tell me which version of Suse I am running in shell?
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Most system hardware and kernel information can be found through
or by looking in /proc/
To get the SuSE release, /usr/share/doc/release-notes/RELEASE-NOTES.en.html should provide a hint. You could look at using cat, grep and so on to extract a string.
