Questions tagged [locate]
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Using mlocate to search on multiple systems in parallel
I often need to search files on different systems, without knowing on which system the file I'm looking for is located.
Is it possible to search with mlocate on multiple systems in parallel? By ...
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Running updatedb as a nomal user (using the plocate package)
I want a normal user to be able to update the database used by the locate command in Linux. With the previous version of locate (provided by the package mlocate), I achieved this by adding the ...
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Enable updatedb for mlocate in CentOS or RHEL
Even if the mlocate package is installed with dnf install mlocate the updatedb command is not scheduled to run.
That means locate <filename> return empty results.
How do you enable updatedb to ...
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Unable to locate package neofetch on apt install neofetch
I'm trying to install neofetch on a Linux server running Debian 8, I'm already on root, I type apt install neofetch but it returns E: Unable to locate package neofetch. I tried apt-get install ...
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locate.updatedb not indexing ~/Library
I know there's a file deep in ~/Library called index.js. I can find it with the find command find ~/Library -name "index*"(it actually finds a lot of similarly named files).
However when I ...
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locate command does not work on mac terminal
I'm working on Mac (Catalina, 10.15.7) and want to use the locate <...>-command.
After typing locate ... it suggested me the following, which I did.
WARNING: The locate database (/var/db/locate....
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WSL - updatedb (mlocate) is not indexing Windows directories
I cannot search for Windows files using locate. Updatedb is not indexing directories from /mnt/c
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What makes 'locate' so fast compared with 'find'?
In my mind, both locate and find finds a file, but why does locate run so fast?
According to its documentation, locate:
DESCRIPTION
locate reads one or more databases prepared by updatedb(8) and ...
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Where is Microsoft Teams application located on my Windows 10 Computer?
From the 'tray icon' I chose to disable "start Teams on startup" but now I can't find the application.
It's not in Programs Files > Microsoft [neither in Program Files (x86)].
It's not in ...
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How to cancel the reference by locate?
My os info:
uname -a
Linux mydebian 4.19.0-14-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.171-2 (2021-01-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux
There is no /usr/share/vim in the os,it is my first time(never install before) to install ...
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mdfind command on Debian Buster 10 but can't build index
I have installed the mdfind package mdfinder.app_0.9.4-1+b2_amd64.deb on Debian 10 Buster.
The command mdfind comes classically from MacOS X but when I did an apt-cache search mdfind, I got this ...
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How to find all files,with substring, e.g. xyz (caseinsensitive) in filename within particular type (*.txt) using linux command line?
I have some bunch of files, which has "xyz" in the filename, This "xyz" can be case insensitive, e.g. "XYz" or "xYz". Wish to display all possible combination of the files in from current working node
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Find system sounds in a software
I am using the Wondershare Filmora 9 video editor software on my Windows 10 laptop and I would like to locate and replace the default "Notify me when Video Conversion is Done" sound as I can barely ...
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the `locate` command (Linux) doesn't show any files in homedirectory
System: Debian Sid
Problem: The locate command only returns files that exist outside my (the user's) home directory. This behaviour is new and was probably introduced through some package upgrade.
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Locate database must always be updated before search
I've noticed lately that when I run locate [something] it will always fail, even if I know the files are there (and I've seen them through a call to locate previously). I have to run updatedb before ...
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What is the difference between find and locate?
It seems to me locate is much faster than find and also more thorough at finding files. What is the difference?
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Tracking launchtl locate database creation
I'm running the locate command to look for a file on MacOS and I get a warning that locate.database needs to be created with a certain command. I noticed it takes quite a while to build the database ...
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how do I sort the output of 'locate' by file modification time
When I use the locate command, I often wish that the output was sorted in reverse chronological order, just like with ls -rtc. What is the easiest way to achieve this?
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Difference between locate and which in Linux
What is the difference between locate and which in Linux?
Why when I use locate mentor does it list all the mentor but when I used which mentor it says "no mentor in..." - what does this mean?
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How to use locate to search for parent folder of a file?
For example I have this file in this folder
folder_x/folder_y/file1.txt
I want to do something like this:
locate -xxxx file1.txt
and get this
/folder_x/folder_y/
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How can I locate a local html file that has been loaded into the browsers element inspector?
Since there don't seem to be any video players with a seamless loop, I've been opening my webms through Firefox since the webm player is capable of seamless looping. Problem is every time I open a ...
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mlocate re-index only one folder
Let's say I changed the contents of one or a small number of folders (added / deleted / renamed files) and want to add them to the mlocate index.
What I would like is to:
Re-index only the ...
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locate doesn't find all the files it should
I type in locate gmp.h at the prompt and get the following:
/usr/src/linux-headers-3.13.0-24/include/linux/igmp.h
/usr/src/linux-headers-3.13.0-24/include/uapi/linux/igmp.h
/usr/src/linux-headers-3....
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Locate displaying old files?
My locate command seems to be digging up files which don't exist (old files which I have renamed).
sudo locate bus-node.conf
/etc/init/start-bus-node.conf
sudo mv /etc/init/start-bus-node.conf /etc/...
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How to a open a file in vim using pipe
I get to use the locate command extremely often.
So if I run the following command.
locate updatedb | head -1
Then it gives me the O/p
/usr/updatedb.conf
I wonder if there is any such command ...
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Which tool is most flexible for searching my whole system, locate or mdfind?
Follow-on to Spotlight and the locate command don't search *all* folders:
The steps mentioned by Gordon Davisson were performed; .bashrc was entered in the Spotlight search field, and System and ...
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Finding files on mounted disk with locate
I have a small SSD disk with my linux system, and a large IDE disk with most of my work, that is mounted at system start. For some reason I can't seem to find files on the IDE disk using locate. I don'...
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Windows alternative to locate on ubuntu [duplicate]
The locate command on ubuntu is so great that I miss it a lot on Windows 7.
Do you know of an alternative?
Ok I found this but it's not great:
Is there something like the GNU locate command in ...
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`locate` wildcard strange behavior - why?
locate "*.png" returns all files ending with .png, as expected.
locate "test.*" doesn't return anything, but there are files named test in my system.
locate "*test" returns all files ending with ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 trashed file disappeared
I just trashed a very large file (250GB) on a Ubuntu 12.04, but I actually wanted to delete it. I emptied the trash, but it seems that the file is still on the disk (the free space didn't change). If ...
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How to display file details (size, date, etc.) from Linux “locate” command?
The (slow) Linux “find” command has an option, “-ls”, to display size, date, etc. like the “ls -l” command. But the “locate” command doesn’t seem to have that. So how can I get the equivalent ...
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Problems with locate
Wondering if someone can enlighten me as I believe that perhaps my expectations are wrong.
When I use locate I almost never get what I am expecting. For example... I removed a software package and ran ...
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is it possible to create a locate database for a network volume in Mac OS X?
I need to be able to quickly search through millions of files on a network volume and instead of searching directly I’d like to look up the info in a database.
Instead of “rolling my own” it seems ...
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How to run updatedb, excluding some paths, but not removing previous indexed content for those paths?
I have a strange question, and i am not sure this is something doable at all, thats why i am asking it to the SuperUser :)
So, imagine that you have your filesystem with some mount points for ...
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Strange 'locate' behavior and icon changing
I'd like to change the icon of a program called Refit with a custom one. This program has various tools and when I try to change those icons all is ok but then I run the following command:
$ locate ...
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FreeBSD 9: How to locate an exact filename?
Trying to use locate command to find an exact match for the given pattern.
However it results showing all matching files..
For example: I want to find a binary named: node
But it gives me all ...
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How to use updatedb command as an ordinary user?
The locate command is very useful tool on Linux, but it seems only root can run updatedb command which is very unconvinent to use it. So how to make ordinary user to have the priviledge to run ...
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linux locate command sort by date
The linux locate command is great at finding files quicky.
My question: how can we use the locate command so that the results are returned in date/time order?
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Mac OS X locate command returning nothing
I don't get an error about the db not existing or being populated. I get nothing. I know for a fact that the things I'm searching for exist on my box. I even tried locate bin or locate Users. I get ...
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How to use locate to search for folders only
On a UNIX system, "locate" searches the database for files with chosen name or files within the folder with the chosen name.
How can I use locate to output only folders, not files?
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A file shows in "locate" command but don't exist. Why?
I'm having a strange issue.
I am currently fixing a flash install on Backtrack 5 (Based on Ubuntu). I really need to get flash to work, so I looked up on Google. On some board, one guy said that on ...
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Linux Locate Command false info
I am running Arch Linux and have used the "locate" command quite often to find files. I noticed today, however, that it is bringing up results from where the item has been in the past, not it's ...
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Faster alternatives to "find" and "locate"?
I will like to use "find" and locate" to search for source files in my project, but they take a long time to run. Are there faster alternatives to these programs I don't know about, or ways to speed ...
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Unix-type "locate" on Windows?
Using the Windows CLI (cmd), how does one locate a file that he knows part of the name of? For instance, every single Windows workstation installs javac in a different location, how would one find it ...
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What folders are indexed / covered by 'locate'
On OS X, I think the locate DB is populated by running:
sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
But locate does not seem to find anything in or below ~/
Should locate.updatedb be indexing my home folder ...
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Cannot manually update database for locate?
I've been trying to update the databases used by locate on my Macbook (10.6.3 Snow Leopard) but even following the commands shown in this thread hasn't gotten me anywhere. I just get an error from it ...
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What's the equivalent of Linux's updatedb command for the Mac?
If I want to use the locate command on a Linux machine, I usually run sudo updatedb first to update the database. I can run the locate command on OS X 10.5 but I can't find updatedb. What's the ...
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How to use locate in cygwin?
I'm trying to use locate to find files, but I'm not getting anything back from the program. It can't even find files that are in the current directory. How do I make locate work?
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How can I make locate/updatedb ignore certain file extensions?
For instance, I don't want either program to find files that end in *.pyc. I'm sure I can do this somehow using regexes or globs, but is there a way to make locate just ignore the files altogether? ...
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locate/updatedb like tool (Linux CLI) for CDs/DVDs
I am looking for a Linux tool to search for files on offline media like CDs and DVDs. I know there are a lot of "cataloging" tools, but those are all graphical and I want a command line program. Ideal ...
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