[Tfug] When RTFM is not enough

[Keith Davey]

I agree and there are sunctions that locate does not seem to posses.  I frequently use find to locate files over a certain age.  I do not know any way to use locate to acomplish that task.  Also find is real-time, where locate is operating off of data that was gathered from the last updatedb run.

Keith Davey


On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 01:40:49PM -0700, johngalt wrote:

> > If anyone tells you to use "find", double up your fist and just pound the
> > snot out of them.  When they lose consciousness, drag their body into a
> 
> The problem with "find" is what?
> 
> Why litter your disk with index files to grep later?
> 
> Take care not to get covered in snot, I have a bucketful...
> 
> 
> "Bowie J. Poag" wrote:
> > 
> > > One question at a time. I'm trying to find out where everything is,
> > > and older distributions used something called "locate" with "updatedb"
> > 
> > It should still be there..Its a standard fixture. Might want to hunt down
> > the RPM at www.rpmfind.net.
> > 
> > In the meantime, you can do this quick hack to achieve the same thing:
> > 
> >    du -k / >/files.txt
> > 
> > This will create a text file listing the complete expanded filename of every
> > file on your system.
> > 
> > To locate a file, just grep it.
> > 
> >    grep "whatever" /files.txt
> > 
> > If anyone tells you to use "find", double up your fist and just pound the
> > snot out of them.  When they lose consciousness, drag their body into a
> > dumpster, dump some gasoline into it, and set them on fire. Repeat as
> > needed.
> > 
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