find it easier to: sudo updatedb locate <file>
well that might be because I never learned the find command but still it works for me. On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 2:53 PM Anton Aylward <li...@antonaylward.com> wrote: > > On 24/11/2020 12:09, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > * Sakke K <sakke....@gmail.com> [11-24-20 12:01]: > >> locate is a faster command than find. > >> For example, locate _A250256.ORF.xmp > > > > yes, find actively scans your file structure while locate just look into > > its database. but the database must be up-to-date or your locate will > > fail. > > RTFM > Just to clarify from TFM: > ============================================================================== > locate(1) General Commands Manual > > NAME > locate - find files by name > > SYNOPSIS > locate [OPTION]... PATTERN... > > DESCRIPTION > locate reads one or more databases prepared by updatedb(8) and > writes file names matching at least one of the PATTERNs to standard > output, one per line. > > ... > > By default, locate does not check whether files found in database > still exist (but it does require all parent directories to exist if > the database was built with --require-visibility no). locate can > never report files created after the most recent update of the > relevant > database. > =========================================================================== > > So if you've uploaded (or relocated after uploading to a scratch directory) > since the last update to the relevant databases, 'locate' is not going to be > useful. 'find', by comparison deals with what is actually in the file system > right now. > > The man page on 'updatedb' says it is refreshed daily by 'cron', but on some > systems it is done by a systemd timer unit. > > Either way, it may not, on you system, be enabled by default. It isn't on > mine. > So I prefer to use 'find'. Which is more flexible about such matters time and > size and the ability run subcommands such as 'exifgrep' on any potential > match. > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
