Questions tagged [locate]
`locate` is a command-line tool for local file search using a database.
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find -name vs locate [duplicate]
Why this command:
locate $FILENAME
is NOT the same of
find / -name $FILENAME 2>/dev/null
? Sometimes locate finds nothing, while find never fails.
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updatedb is generating an incomplete list of files
I'm running the following command:
updatedb -l 0 -o mydatabase.db -U /usr/myfiles1/
Then,
locate -d mydatabase.db ""
The "" are to show all the contents of mydatabase.db. However, I'm missing ...
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updatedb command [duplicate]
I have two directories DirA and DirB, when I am running sudo updatedb -U DirA then only files under DirA are visible to locate command but I want files under "DirB" be visible.
So in my case is DirA ...
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Truncate from beginning in Rofi
I'm using this command for a rofi-locate script (source):
xdg-open "$(locate $query | rofi -threads 0 -width 90 -dmenu -i -p "locate:")"
Currently all long path results are truncated from the end, ...
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linux file tree database file
When
i install mlocate i must run updatedb
I was wondering if there is a db file with all the files on the system and their paths
is there a msterfile that contains all the file location/names on ...
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Locating font files
There's a utility called fc-list in the fontconfig library, that's good for listing installed fonts.
It detected a few hundred system fonts.
I ended up using find to locate all files with common ...
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locate: using updatedb to create a database of directories only?
GNU findutils' man page for updatedb says it has a --findoptions parameter. Does it mean I can specify a find-like option there to create a specific database for locate?
Like this, to include ...
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How can I find exactly which files have been accessed after a command runs in tcsh?
how can I find which files tcsh reads to TAB complete the second word of a command, as opposed to the first word.
I know I can just use whereis complete to see the path to *.1.gz file, but that is ...
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locate stop repeating when a directory contains a name
Sometimes when using locate, my search string will (either incidentally or intentionally) match a portion of a directory. This causes everything below that point in the directory to be printed. For ...
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The locate command finds files that aren't there
I use a Mac running High Sierra. I am cleaning up my hard drive and I was looking for remnants of a program I deleted from my Mac. I used the locate command like this: locate Canopy. I once had the ...
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do `locate` use an array to store information? [duplicate]
Since i know that locate command use "index" to locate a record, is it possible that the implement of the search method is based "array"?
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Command which do not locate the real path of command
We have a RHEL 7.x with Hortonworks (HDP) installed and need an advice why we get on which command:
no hadoop in ...
The Hadoop client is installed under /usr/bin and from env we get
[root@...
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How to use locate with a world-unreadable home directory
man locate says:
The locate database is typically built by user ``nobody'' and the
locate.updatedb(8) utility skips directories which are not readable for
user ``nobody'', group ``nobody'', or ...
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Solution to change directory passing a directory pattern as the parameter
I'd like to get any script or Linux solution to implement changing directory passing not exactly a directory but a pattern as the parameter. Something like this:
# Ex: I'd like to execute a "cd" to a ...
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How to know where the last file created by my current user is located?
I use Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) with Bash 4.3.48(1) and zip 3.0.
In a file containing a bash script (#!/bin/bash) with many different functions, I also have this function used to create a full database ...
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Count number of files that are not symbolic links in output from “locate”
I'm trying to count the number of non-symbolic linked files passed by the locate command. I've tried a number of options and think this is the most promising:
locate -r "$PWD.*\.c$" | xargs -0 -I{} ...
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How to pass multiple DB files to locate?
I want to pass multiple DB files to the locate command, like this:
locate -d ~/.a_locate.db:~/.b_locate.db: -Ai file_to_find
But this gives me this error:
locate: can not stat () `~/.b_locate.db': ...
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Using regex for locate and grep to get only folders
When I try to search using locate and grep something like:
locate A-B | grep .dir
The result is:
.../A-B-C.dir
.../A-B-C.dir/file
.../A-B-C.dir/file1
.../A-B-D.dir
.../A-B-D.dir/file1
...
How to ...
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changing the default database for locate and mlocate
I managed to run locate and mlocate so that it uses an encrypted partition, i.e. my home folder. See this post.
However, how do I make the new, relocated mlocate.db database the default?
I now ...
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Debian unable to locate packages php [closed]
I just started to explore debian for the first time, and wondered if anyone knew anything about the "unable to locate packages" I get this error when I am trying to run ./installer.sh (a file)
E: ...
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Is there a way to use find to filter a file list?
I have the output of locate --existing --regex that was quite fast to obtain. A similar find takes several hours - it's a huge volume.
I would like to apply further find filters to this file list.
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Simple CLI tool for searching
Is there a CLI tool similar to gnome-search-tool?
I'm using locate, but I'd prefer that it grouped results where directory name is matched. I get a lot of results where the path is matched which is ...
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How do I compare mlocate.db to what exists now?
I ran rm -rf on /var/cache/lxc, not realizing it was full of symlinks. I've lost a bunch of files, including most of /dev. I have a mlocate.db from 16 hours ago. How do I compare the list of files ...
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Improve search for files by pathnames with locate and grep pipeline
I often use the following pipeline of locate (from findutils) and grep to find files whose pathnames contain two words word1 and word2, without any specific order between each other:
locate -i word1 |...
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BSD/macOS updatedb spec?
For linux, the format of mlocate's DB is documented here. Without diving into the source, is there a similar spec for BSD / macOS locate.database available?
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Do some file get excluded from being saved in the locate database?
Does the locate database not save certain files? Like are there files that excluded from the database by default?
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What situation is `find` and `locate` best used in? [closed]
I know that locate has to have a database generated and is much faster, and that find does not need a database generated and is not as fast. So in what situations is find and locate more efficient/...
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Cannot locate zlib or pcre location after install
I installed zlib1g zlib1g-dev libpcre3 libpcre3-dev with apt for NGINX open source over installing zlib & pcre in their own folders. I cannot seem to locate both zlib & pcre libraries on my ...
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When counting source files and LOC with locate and find - why do Python files come up different?
I am having trouble understanding why find and locate would work differently for C and Python source files. My goal is to count the number source files and the sum of their source code lines for a ...
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How to rename filenames with accents on macOS?
I am trying to rename files that include the character "à".
I do the following :
rename -v 's/à/a/g' *
But it shows all the files as unchanged. Verbose mode shows the same thing.
I tried to escape ...
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What kind of database do `updatedb` and `locate` use?
The locate program of findutils scans one or more databases of filenames and displays any matches. This can be used as a very fast find command if the file was present during the last file name ...
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How do i delete everything of specified “name”
A few days ago I installed pcsxr and today I wanted to completely remove everything of pcsxr
I tried to purge it but when I execute locate -c pscxr the output was 48 so it means I still have a ...
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how to find occurrences of a file using locate
There are multiple installation of Java on my system, some silently installed by IDEs, and I wanted to find out where they are. So I thought to use locate to find them. My first try of
locate java
...
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How to redirect a list of human readable paths to another command?
When working with the output of commands such as locate which produce lists of paths in "human readable form" (i.e. without \ in front of spaces), how do you redirect their output to another command?
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How indexing works with locate command?
locate command searches an index that the system builds periodically.
How to make sure, any new file you're looking is part of index? Is there any explicit command to index?
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Quick way to open results from `find` or `locate`
When I run find or locate, the matching files will populate stdout, one file per line. The next step is often that I want to open one of these files. This would be faster and more efficient if I did ...
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How can I choose one of `locate`'s results and let it be opened with a specified application
I have a bash script called findme, which is coded as follows:
#!/bin/bash
locate -Abi '*\.'$1 $2 | grep --color=always -ni $2 | less -R
It searches for me for all files with a specified file ...
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locate is not locating the file present in the current directory
That media is another hard disk in the computer. What is the way to locate things there?
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locate(1) buffers its output [duplicate]
I'm using locate(1) from GNU findutils for a little task and it seems as if it buffers its output. I am piping the output of locate to another task that will process the lines as locate finds them. ...
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locate outputs question marks when locatedb contains certain characters (tabs) unless output is piped
I construct my own locatedb using frcode so it would contain filesizes after paths (it helps me look for large files quickly). I store the path separated from the size by a tab character. I've noticed ...
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Where is the current wallpaper stored in Kali Linux?
I have a script that sets one exact image as a wallpaper and I want it to check at every run if it's still the same image. If not, it asks you if you want to change wallpaper again to this image. It's ...
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How to locate a path?
Is it possible to locate a path in the file system like what can be done for file names? For example I want to find all paths in system that include 'foo/bar', which may have the following result:
/...
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How to locate exactly that executable, which will be run if it's name entered in command line? [duplicate]
Is it possible to locate exactly that executable
myname
which will be run if passed to command line
> myname
locate command didn't work as expected, since it returns numerous results. Result ...
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Search tool with file content indices
Are there any file search tools like gnome-search-tool (gui where I can select several options, like age of file, file-size, owner, etc) that uses DB indices for not only the file name but the file ...
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Why can't 'locate' or 'find' find 'makeinfo'? [closed]
When I do:
locate makeinfo
OR
find / -name "*makeinfo*"
I get nothing.
But when I do makeinfo --help, it gives me the proper help output.
How is this possible? If makeinfo is an executable, it ...
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Cannot delete file, but can delete parent directory
So basically, I'm trying to delete the files:
/var/lib/mysql/db/nomNomina2.*
and when I look for them with locate, I get the following output:
/var/lib/mysql/db/nomNomina2.MYD
/var/lib/mysql/db/...
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Difference between locate and mlocate
I wanted to install the command locate, which is available via sudo apt-get installmlocate.
However, I first ran sudo apt-get installlocate which seems to have installed something else.
Typing the ...
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Search for and remove files safely
I would like to search for all the nohup.out in my mounted filesystems, and delete them.
There are some directories and files whose filenames contain space, so I think of xargs -0.
To be safe, I ...
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Shorthand alternative to find
Is there any alternative out there for find similar to ag and ack?
I'm really tired of having to type:
find some/app -iname "some_file*"
I much rather just type:
find "some_file*"
And have it ...
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Faster search than find
Is there a way to find things faster than find . I am/was doing :-
$sudo find / -perm +4000
But it takes ages to find the required info. and I know that most of the files which would that specific ...
