Difference between locate and find

Tags

beginners

Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Difference between locate and find

06-25-2002

Registered User

12, 0

Join Date: Mar 2002

Last Activity: 30 July 2003, 2:25 AM EDT

Posts: 12

Thanks Given: 0

Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

Difference between locate and find

I was wondering what the difference was between the two commands, I understand that locate won't search for files with certain permissions set. Are there any others?

Thanks

camerja1

View Public Profile for camerja1

Find all posts by camerja1

06-25-2002

Registered User

1,071, 7

Join Date: Aug 2001

Last Activity: 24 February 2017, 5:03 PM EST

Location: San Antonio, TX,

Posts: 1,071

Thanks Given: 0

Thanked 7 Times in 6 Posts

here is a link for OS X.

http://www.westwind.com/reference/OS...sc.html#locate

Scroll down a few inches.

BTW, www.google.com is very handy. I searched for "unix command locate" and this was the 4th response.

Kelam_Magnus

View Public Profile for Kelam_Magnus

Find all posts by Kelam_Magnus

Previous Thread | Next Thread

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

To find Difference

Hi Friends, I need to find the difference between two files , File_1 contained 4 columns, and File_2 contained 4 columns, I need to find the difference using 1st column, Or need to find the difference using 3st column,

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Find time difference

I have a file wich contains time formats and i need to get the time difference TIME1 TIME2 =============== =================== 20120624192555.6Z 20120624204006.5Z which means first date 2012/6/24 19:25:55,second date 2012/6/24 20:40:06 so when i get the time...

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to find time difference?

I have a file wich contains time formats and i need to get the time difference TIME1 TIME2 ================================== 20120624192555.6Z 20120624204006.5Z which means first date 2012/6/24 19:25:55,second date 2012/6/24 20:40:06 so when i get the time...

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

To find difference between two files on a whole

Hi, The requirement is to compare two files that has single column of records each. Comparison is to happen on a whole and not line by line. File1.txt 314589929 315611087 304924413 315989094 301171509 302984393 315609549 314593632 File2.txt 315611087 304924413 315989094

5. Homework & Coursework Questions

Need help using find or locate with wildcards

Use and complete the template provided. The entire template must be completed. If you don't, your post may be deleted! 1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data: List all files in ~c12100 directory beginning with "BOZO" that end with either "123" or "456" 2. Relevant...

6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Find difference between 2 files

I have 2 files as follows. file1.txt <cell>123</cell> <cell>345</cell> file2.txt <cell>123</cell> <cell>456</cell> out out should be output.txt <cell>456></cell> How do we achieve this> The difference betwenn the two files should be wirtten to the output file.. ...

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Find difference in two files

Hola, Tengo un texto texto1.txt con el siguiente contenido: Malaga Cadiz Sevilla Hola Y otro .txt texto2.txt con: Malaga Cadiz Sevilla Cordoba Huelva quiero obtener en otro .txt la diferencia entre estos dos archivos:

8. Emergency UNIX and Linux Support

to find difference between two files

I have a file which gets appended with records daily..for eg. 1st day of the month i get 9 records ,2nd day 9 records .....till the last day in the month...the no of records may vary...i store the previous days file in a variable oldfile=PATH/previousdaysfile....i store the current days file in a...

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

difference of find,locate and whereis

hi guys, may i know the difference of find,locate and whereis ?

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

using find to locate hard and soft links with tar

I am digging for certain types of files in the current directory and all its sub-directories and archiving them with the following code: #! /usr/bin/ksh Archive=`date +%Y_%m_%d_%T` find . -type f \( -name \*\.ksh -o -name \*\.sql -o -name \*\.ini \) -print|xargs tar -cf...

UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers