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Re: Specialized disk directory tools



On Sep 13, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 9/13/25 5:48 AM, Roger Price wrote:
> > On Sat, 13 Sep 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > 
> > > but BUT *BUT*  ;/
> > > locate NOT suitable for *MY* usage, database requires _refreshing_
> > 
> > The database is built and refreshed automatically every 24 hours.
>                                                           ^^^^^^^^
>                                                         The problem
> > 
> > What can't you do with locate ?  Roger
> 
> For *MY* usage, "locate" does NOT provide any advantage over "find".
> Thus the database wastes valuable disk space.

The advantage is in time to get the result -- which may not be as much
of an issue with SSDs as it was on spinning rust.  I remember waiting
*minutes* for 'find' to return at times. Here, the database itself is
hovering at just under 15MiB.

But hey, if it doesn't work for you, no big deal, just keep using find.

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