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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Is a simple one command to find a file? Post 7028 by LivinFree on Tuesday 18th of September 2001 12:38:20 AM
Old 09-18-2001
I have used before a quick little hack in places that I could not install the "slocate" package. I run a job from cron similar to the following:
find / -type f -print >/root/etc/list.files 2>/dev/null
Then I wrote a simple finder script that searches through the list for the files - it's a LOT faster than waiting for find to complete! Plus, with a little fancy scripting (guffaw), you can search for items only in "bin" directories, or in your $PATH, incase you think you know the name of a program, but forgot exactly what it is.

I now think that slocate is a better idea, since it "remembers" permissions - so if you can't view it anyway, it won't show up.
 

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slocate

SLOCATE(1)						      General Commands Manual							SLOCATE(1)

NAME

       slocate - Security Enhanced version of the GNU Locate

SYNOPSIS

       slocate [-qi] [-d <path>] [--database=<path>] <search string>
       slocate [-i] [-r <regexp>] [--regexp=<regexp>]
       slocate [-qv] [-o <file>] [--output=<file>] slocate [-e <dir1,dir2,...>] [-f <fstype1,...>] <[-l <level>] [-c] <[-U <path>] [-u]>
       slocate [-Vh] [--version] [--help]

DESCRIPTION

       Secure  Locate  provides a secure way to index and quickly search for all files on your system regardless of ownership. It uses incremental
       encoding just like GNU locate to compress its database to make searching faster, but it will also  check  file  permissions  and  ownership
       before  displaying matched entries so that users will not see files they do not have access to. Note that permissions and ownership are not
       stored in the database.

       This manual page documents slocate.  slocate Enables system users to search entire filesystems without displaying unauthorized files.

   OPTIONS
       -u     Create slocate database starting at path /.

       -U <dir>
	      Create slocate database starting at path <dir>.

       -e <dir1,dir2,...>
	      Exclude directories from the slocate database.

       -f <fstype1,...>
	      Exclude files on specific file systems from the slocate database.

       -c     Parse '/etc/updatedb.conf' when updating the slocate database. (see CONFIGURATION FILE below).

       -l <level>
	      Security level.  0 turns security checks off. This will make searchs faster.  1 turns security checks on. This is the default.

       -i     Does a case insensitive search.

       -q     Quiet mode.  Error messages are suppressed.

       -n <num>
	      Limit the amount of results shown to <num>.

       -r <regexp>
	      --regexp=<regexp> Search the database using a basic POSIX regular expression.

       -o <file>
	      --output=<file> Specfies the database to create.

       -d <path>
	      --database=<path> Specfies the path of databases to search in.

       -h     --help Display this help.

       -v     --verbose Verbose mode. Display files when creating database.

       -V     --version Display version.

ENVIRONMENT

       LOCATE_PATH
		   Colon-separated list of databases to search.

CONFIGURATION FILE

       Secure Locate will parse GNU Locate's /etc/updatedb.conf when the argument is provided. But please be aware that  Secure  Locate  currently
       does NOT support all options provided by GNU Locate's configuration file.

       Options currently supported by Secure Locate are PRUNEFS and PRUNEPATHS

VERSION

       Secure Locate v3.0 beta

AUTHOR

       Kevin Lindsay - Copyright (c) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

BUG REPORT

       Report bugs to slocate@trakker.ca

URL

       http://slocate.trakker.ca/

SEE ALSO

       updatedb(1)

								  January 6, 2006							SLOCATE(1)
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