mlocate - what is it good for?

Little Girl littlergirl at gmail.com
Wed May 22 19:59:00 UTC 2019


Hey there,

Andrea Corbellini wrote:

>I personally use 'locate' all the time, and rarely use 'find' if
>'locate' is available.

Same here. I just plain like it better and find it more intuitive to
use.

I'd also like to add that, since mlocate was specifically mentioned
in the subject line, I found this page on Stack Exchange, which
explores the difference between locate and mlocate:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/273182/difference-between-locate-and-mlocate 

That page also links to this page in the Debian repositories, for an
interesting explanation of what mlocate is and does:

https://packages.debian.org/jessie/mlocate

-- 
Little Girl

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