On Mi, 10 feb 21, 12:24:20, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 03:58:39PM -0500, Marvin Renich wrote: > > These have come to be expected to be on a typical Linux system by almost > > every technically-knowledgeable Linux user. Locate does not satisfy > > that criterion > (I'm surprised by this, if this is true) Possibly a consequence of the portability problem, advice on debian-user will almost always[1] use 'find' whenever the problem / solution involves searching for files. For myself, I abandoned 'locate' as soon as I learned 'find', even of low power systems with storage on SD cards or connected via USB2. [1] as in: can't remember *any* occurrence in recent years Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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