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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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updatedb

UPDATEDB(1L)															      UPDATEDB(1L)

NAME

       updatedb - update the slocate database

SYNOPSIS

       updatedb [-u] [-u path] [-e path1,path2,...] [-f fstype1,...] [-l [01] ] [-q] [-v,--verbose] [-V, --version] [-h, --help] pattern...

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents  slocate,	a  security-enhanced  version of locate.  updatedb is simply a link to slocate that implies the -u
       option.

OPTIONS

       -u     Create slocate database starting at the root directory.  This is the default behavior when called as updatedb.

       -U path
	      Create slocate database starting at path path.

       -e dirs
	      Exclude directories in the comma-separated list dirs from the slocate database.

       -f fstypes
	      Exclude file systems in the comma-separated list dirs from the slocate database.

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

       -q     Quiet mode; error messages are suppressed.

       -v     Verbose mode; display files indexed when creating database

       --help Print a summary of the options to slocate and exit.

       --version
	      Print the version number of slocate and exit.

ENVIRONMENT

       SEE ALSO
	      locate(1L),

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