Tom Berkley said:
> If you do not perform an updatedb command periodically, the database for
> the locate command will not be very thorough in its regurgitation. I
> find the locate command works so fast that its worth the wait for the
> updatedb command to run and then use the locate command instead of find.
Yes! Sometimes I'll install a new program and not know where it ended up. I'll
go ahead and do an 'updatedb' so that I can use 'locate' on it. I have /mnt
excluded from the search, so that speeds things up quite a bit by ignoring my
DOS partitions..
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Lane
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Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
Using Linux to get where I want to go...
