Pyrenamer - a new problem

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Sat Mar 22 10:01:37 UTC 2014


On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 02:34:32PM -0700, rikona wrote:
> Friday, March 21, 2014, 5:46:42 AM, Colin wrote:
> > I don't know what the real problem here is, but I can point to one
> > confusion. The "locate" database only updates occasionally (usually
> > nightly). If you've only just purged and reinstalled something, then
> > it is not going to be up to date.
> 
> I'm familiar with that. If I want a current view of the system, I
> run updatedb before I run locate.

Fair enough.

> Again, I'm trying to find the dates associated with all the files
> produced by locate - without having to do the hundred or so
> individually by hand, since they are spread out all over the computer.

  locate -0 ... | xargs -0 ls -l

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]




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