Besides, if your box runs 24/24, updatedb gets executed every night at 04:02
am. Unless you were un-smart (gee, I'm turning euphemistic!) enough to disable
cron, that is.
On Mar 29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If you do not perform an updatedb command periodically, the database for
> the locate command will not be very thorough in its regurgitation. I
> find the locate command works so fast that its worth the wait for the
> updatedb command to run and then use the locate command instead of find.
>
> Tom
>
> Russ Johnson wrote:
> >
> > The reason locate is so fast is that it has a database. Unfortunately, I
> > don't believe that database (by default anyway) includes the whole hard
> > drive. That's why I use find. Locate seemed to miss files that I know were
> > on the hard drive.
> >
> > Also, find will use the name only, with the options I gave earlier. So the
> > command "find / -name core -print" will only list core files to the screen.
> >
> > Russ
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lane Lester
> > Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 4:04 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: [expert] find a file
> >
> > Russ Johnson said:
> >
> > > find [root of search] [option] regex [option]
> > >
> > > So, to find the file "httpd" do the following:
> > >
> > > First, if you like, try "which httpd". It might be in your path. If that
> > > doesn't do anything, then try "find / -name httpd -print". That find
> > command
> > > will search the whole file system for that file.
> >
> > I like to use "locate" because it's so fast. I wrote a small script that
> > just
> > does the following with "lm":
> > locate $1 | more
> > because I use that so often. But is there a way to restrict the search for a
> > precise set of characters (I didn't find it in the man page... at least not
> > so
> > I could understand it).
> >
> > For example, I was looking for "core" files to delete, and locate gave me a
> > flock of "corel" entries.
> > --
> > Lane
> > ____
> > Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
> > Using Linux to get where I want to go...
>
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