Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5100 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Friday 2004-06-04 at 01:11 -0400, Bob S. wrote:

> On Thursday 03 June 2004 03:17 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> >
> > You can also use "locate -e whatever", and it will only list those
> > files that really exists.
> >
> Much simpler that doing an updatedb and waiting for it.
> We learn new things every day.

Just remember that it only applies to files that have dissapeared; ie, it
just checks to see if the files are still there. It is also slower, so if
you are going to search for several files, it makes sense to run updatedb.


-- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson