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minus-squaremyotheraccount@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·3 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-up12·3 days agoThis is me every time. locate <thing> Not found. Bullshit! sudo updatedb locate <thing> Not found.
minus-squareapftwb@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·12 hours agoAh. You were looking for thing_name, but it was called thing-name.
minus-squaresem@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoHow did you eventually found it?
minus-squareMsFlammkuchen@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agolocate -i <thing> Not found.
minus-squareDr. Quadragon ❌@mastodon.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 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
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!
locate <thing> Not found.Ah. You were looking for
thing_name, but it was calledthing-name.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