[PLUG] Search entire filesystem except two mounted partitions

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Fri Nov 29 02:02:58 UTC 2019


On Thu, 28 Nov 2019, John Jason Jordan wrote:

> The locate and find manpages have let me down. So has the GUI Catfish
> file search.

John,

Why does locate fail you? If your system is on overnight the database is
updated. If not, as root (sudo) you can run updatedb (see man updatedb).

You can use part of a filename with locate and try different strings to
isolate what you want. Since locate searches the slocate database you're not
doing a sequential search through terrabytes of data.

Regards,

Rich



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