Questions tagged [locate]
`locate` is a command-line tool for local file search using a database.
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How can I ensure that locate will search into my user home folder? (macOS)
The locate command doesn't list any search results from files that are in my home folder. Is there a config file to tweak to enable this behavior?
sudo locate word didn't work, nor did updating the ...
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How can I map /mnt/**/* with updatedb to work with (p)locate?
When I use the locate command (specifically plocate 1.1.22), it doesn't seem to include any files under the /mnt directory, i.e. on external drives.
The man page for updatedb claims "The whole ...
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gwenview pass file names from es.exe command line to everything voidtools
I am trying to pass filenames retrieved from everything voidtools via their es.exe command line invoked in wsl environment. Effectively, it works similarly to mlocate.
es.exe communicates with ...
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To fix the 'locate' database. And to properly update it
I tried to update the locate database, and for some reason it has been corrupted:
locate foo
locate: locate database header corrupt, bigram char outside 0, 32-127: -1
How to repair it? Or maybe I ...
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locate in cron.daily not updating database
On a standard desktop installation of Ubuntu 24.04, when I try to use the locate command, searches for files that I clearly have in my home directory do not show up -- it appears as if the locate ...
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Does a command exist that lists all the directories where a word appears in a file or directory name?
When I don't remember where a file or a folder is, I sometime use the locate command
(that finds more occurrences, allow more candidates than a find, in my mind. But maybe I'm mistaking).
But then ...
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How to install slocate in Ubuntu
I have seen several references to the slocate command [1][2] as a more secure alternative to the locate command. However I cannot install it using sudo apt install slocate. I also cannot find any ...
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How could updatedb run quickly by avoiding doing full disk scans (maybe not mtime)
How is it possible for updatedb to run very fast by avoiding doing full disk scans? Since mtime of parent folder is not affected by files in subfolders.
In Why does the updatedb program run so fast?
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Just as there is "locate" to "find". Is there a database for a faster "grep"?
locate (or rather, updatedb) is somewhat simple: it takes the output of find for the required paths (usually '/'), sorts it, and then compresses it with a front-compression tool (frcode), in which the ...
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Why locate command doesn't recognize `|` meta character as basic regex?
When i use extended regex on locate command work well:
└─$ locate --regex "(\.rar|\.zip)"
/home/kali/Downloads/linux.zip
/usr/lib/jvm/java-...
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`plocate` couldn't find results in my home dir but `mlocate` could. How to search results in home dir?
Currently I'm trying to migrate from mlocate to plocate.
I'm using mlocate in my script (note: locate is aliased to either mlocate or plocate depending which one I've installed).
Successfully searched ...
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Permission denied with locate command in Shell Script in Oracle Linux?
I am trying to run a shell script that contains the command
$locate /etc/*.conf
to find all files in /etc/ that end in .conf, but whenever I run the script the command line says /etc/chrony.conf: ...
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What is the difference between locate txt vs locate *.txt?
Output of locate txt | head:
/etc/brltty/brl-ba-all.txt
/etc/brltty/brl-bd-all.txt
/etc/brltty/brl-bl-18.txt
/etc/brltty/brl-bl-40_m20_m40.txt
/etc/brltty/brl-ec-all.txt
/etc/brltty/brl-ec-spanish.txt
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Difference between mlocate and plocate
Since locate doesn't work by default in Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS, and the message on the terminal says:
Command 'locate' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install plocate
As we can see, it ...
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locate and updatedb do nothing in Linux Mint
I run Linux Mint 21.
Currently the locate command always returns no results, and updatedb always returns immediately. The database is sized no more than a few kilobytes.
I have verified that the ...
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