locate.updatedb(8) [freebsd man page]
LOCATE.UPDATEDB(8) BSD System Manager's Manual LOCATE.UPDATEDB(8) NAME
locate.updatedb -- update locate database SYNOPSIS
/usr/libexec/locate.updatedb DESCRIPTION
The locate.updatedb utility updates the database used by locate(1). It is typically run once a week by the /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate script. The contents of the newly built database can be controlled by the /etc/locate.rc file. ENVIRONMENT
LOCATE_CONFIG path to the configuration file FILES
/var/db/locate.database the default database /etc/locate.rc the configuration file SEE ALSO
locate(1), periodic(8) Woods, James A., "Finding Files Fast", ;login, 8:1, pp. 8-10, 1983. BSD
February 11, 1996 BSD
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LOCATE(1) BSD General Commands Manual LOCATE(1) NAME
locate -- find filenames quickly SYNOPSIS
locate [-0Scims] [-l limit] [-d database] pattern ... DESCRIPTION
The locate program searches a database for all pathnames which match the specified pattern. The database is recomputed periodically (usually weekly or daily), and contains the pathnames of all files which are publicly accessible. Shell globbing and quoting characters (``*'', ``?'', ``'', ``['' and ``]'') may be used in pattern, although they will have to be escaped from the shell. Preceding any character with a backslash (``'') eliminates any special meaning which it may have. The matching differs in that no characters must be matched explicitly, including slashes (``/''). As a special case, a pattern containing no globbing characters (``foo'') is matched as though it were ``*foo*''. Historically, locate only stored characters between 32 and 127. The current implementation store any character except newline (' ') and NUL ('