phantom files

[Florian Diesch]

Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:

>   Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Marius Gedminas wrote:
>
>> slocate used to check for the existence of the files before printing
>> their names.  Does mlocate not do so?

That's locate -e with mlocate


> This is the first I've heard of mlocate. Where have I been? Thanks.

mlocate is the locate clone Ubuntu installs by default


   Florian
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