UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi,

I am aware of the command locate/slocate. But when I try to search the file which is located in /tmp. Its not able to get it. I tried by updating the database also with the command updatedb.

Is there any consern that the command 'locate' dont check /tmp???

And I knew that locate is the short name for slocate.But in my box (RHEL5) slocate command is not working.

Please clear my doubts.
Thanks in advance.

try this

find / -name filename it may take sometime to update the local db.

Thanks Sydny,
I am aware of searching the file. My doubt is wether the command 'locate' consider /tmp or not?

I would say "not" but thats a question of configuration, go through the docs because in my younger life I used it customly to figure out if files ever existed (at such date, in such dir etc...)

Thanks Vbe,

What you said is correct.

You can also specify the directory in which you want to look for, cause if you specify only / it look up in the whole system.

Code:

find /tmp -name filename