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minus-squareBlack616Angel@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 days agoPeople like this will have to run updatedb every time, when they search for stuff. (What’s a cronjob?)
minus-squaremyotheraccount@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agoLocate is like find, except it uses a cache (so finds things faster, provided your cache is up to date)
minus-squareMimicJar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agoThis is me every time. locate <thing> Not found. Bullshit! sudo updatedb locate <thing> Not found.
minus-squaresem@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agoHow did you eventually found it?
minus-squareMsFlammkuchen@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agolocate -i <thing> Not found.
minus-squareDr. Quadragon ❌@mastodon.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days ago@MimicJar Yeah. Exactly. Motherfucker, I shovel a lot of files around, can’t you update in background? Run a lil daemon, may be? That uses inotify to catch new files? No? @myotheraccount
minus-squareOpenStars@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agoIt would have been funnier to say that you didn’t know where it is. 🤪
minus-squarefoggy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agoWait why have I never which which or locate locate before?
What is wrong with
locate?People like this will have to run updatedb every time, when they search for stuff.
(What’s a cronjob?)
i don’t know what it is
Locate is like
find, except it uses a cache (so finds things faster, provided your cache is up to date)This is me every time.
locate <thing> Not found.Bullshit!
sudo updatedblocate <thing> Not found.This is the way.
How did you eventually found it?
Type the correct filename.
locate -i <thing> Not found.@MimicJar Yeah. Exactly. Motherfucker, I shovel a lot of files around, can’t you update in background? Run a lil daemon, may be? That uses inotify to catch new files? No?
@myotheraccount
It would have been funnier to say that you didn’t know where it is. 🤪
Wait why have I never which which or locate locate before?