<div>On 08/11/05, Matt Morgan <<a href="mailto:minxmertzmomo@gmail.com">minxmertzmomo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 11/8/05, Paul Howarth <<a href="mailto:paul@city-fan.org">paul@city-fan.org</a>> wrote: > M E Fieu wrote: > > Hi.. I tried to look for a file in a linux box using both locate and find , when using find I can > > find my file but locate cannot. However I found sometime locate will work when I look for other > > file. what is the difference between locate and find ? > > > > [root@wa html]# locate abc.pl > > [root@wa html]# find / -name abc.pl -print > > find: /proc/21829/fd: No such file or directory > > /usr/local/abc/abc.pl > > [root@wa html]# > > locate uses a database that is refreshed periodically, whereas find does > a search on your live filesystem. > > So locate is likely to be faster, but find will be more up to date. /usr/bin/updatedb is the command that updates the slocate database that locate uses. You can make that happen nightly with a script in /etc/cron.daily, if it's not in there already. -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> </blockquote></div> Curiously, it is expressly disabled in FC4 (why, is there something better? What?). If you wish to use it, as I do, you have to edit /etc/updatedb.conf.