locate mystery

Karl Auer kauer at biplane.com.au
Sat Nov 11 23:52:38 UTC 2023


On Sat, 2023-11-11 at 15:37 -0800, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> However, the locate command can't seem to see files or directories
> located in /home/saved.

"man locate" leads you to "man updatedb", which leads you to "man
updatedb.conf". Check it out.

Assuming you are using mlocate. If not, there will probably be
something similar that controls what it indexes.

Regards, K.

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