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mlocate

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Author	Miloslav Trmac
Maintainer(s)
Released	2005
Source	mlocate.git
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mlocate is a locate and updatedb implementation. The ‘m’ stands for “merging”: updatedb reuses the existing database to avoid rereading most of the file system, which makes updatedb faster and does not trash the system caches as much.

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locate

locate::examples

locate-180830223238

locate exact path to directory from a dir_list:

   ~$ xargs -P8 -I{} sh -c "locate {} | grep /{}$" < dir_list
   ~$ < dir_list parallel 'locate {} | grep /{}$'

xargs grep parralel

locate::see-also

updatedb

updatedb::files

/etc/updatedb.conf

A configuration file. See updatedb.conf(5).

/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db

The database updated by default.

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