I find the locate command useful, and so like to keep the locate database more or less current. OS X makes this harder than it needs to be by hiding the updatedb command. Here’s how to fix it. sudo ln -s /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb /usr/local/bin/updatedb
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CDPATH vs make
A reader made an interesting comment in reply to an old post. I had experienced some problems running a make file included with the sample code for Joe Armstrong’s Programming Erlang. Gijsbert de Haan wrote: About your directory troubles, you might have to unset CDPATH. I have never taken the time to figure out why, [...]
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