John wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Merciadri Luca > <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be> wrote: > > > Just remember, locate is much faster because it's reading a database. > Results from "find" reflect the state of your system NOW, and results > from "locate" reflect what your system was whenever the last database > update was run. > > So locate will fail to find files that you just installed (after the > db update), and it can report files that are in fact no longer there > (deleted, or moved)! > > I think people are recommending to use mlocate now, which is a dropin > replacement for locate. One big (HUGE) advantage is on db updates, > where mlocate looks at a directory to see if anything has changed, > whereas older locate recursively examined the contents of directories. > > In any case, I agree with you, locate (which is still the command to > invoke even for mlocate) works great. > Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me.
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