On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 18:02:58 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard <[email protected]> dijo:
>Why does locate fail you? If your system is on overnight the database >is updated. If not, as root (sudo) you can run updatedb (see man >updatedb). > >You can use part of a filename with locate and try different strings to >isolate what you want. Since locate searches the slocate database >you're not doing a sequential search through terrabytes of data. I tried updatedb as jjj and with sudo and it did nothing much. It took about one second to complete. Clearly it is not updating the database for all files on all partitions. I think I found one solution - find with the --prune option. I'm trying to figure out the syntax to make it exclude the entire /media folder (because that's where everything but / and /home are mounted). I wish man pages would give examples of usage. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
