Re: how to locate files on my computer

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Neal Hogan wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:00 PM, tom<tompoe@meltel.net>  wrote:
>    
> > On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 19:44 -0500, Neal Hogan wrote:
> >      
> > > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 7:39 PM, tom<tompoe@meltel.net>  wrote:
> > >        
> > > > I thought using the command: $ locate<named files>    would work, but
> > > > nothing happens, even if I su to root.  Any help appreciated.
> > > > Tom
> > > >          
> > > man find(1)
> > >        
> > That command doesn't appear to search my file system and report all
> > files containing the word.  Maybe there's a way to put the utility
> > locate on lenny?
> >      
> man find! Did you look at the manpage . . . the man page for 'find'?
>    
Personally, I prefer locate - usually takes less time, at the expense of 
having to run the indexing job regularly.

Re. the original question:

apt-get install locate
does the job just find, and (I think) sets up a cron job to run updatedb 
regularly

locate will NOT find a file that's been created between database runs, 
and will find files that have been deleted between database runs

Miles Fidelman

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