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| − | mlocate is a locate/updatedb implementation. The 'm' stands for "merging": updatedb reuses the existing database to avoid rereading most of the file | + | {{lc}} |
| − | system, which makes updatedb faster and does not trash the system caches as much. | + | <code>mlocate</code> is a locate/[[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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| | + | * <code>[[apt install mlocate]]</code> |
| | + | * [[Amazon Linux]]: <code>[[yum install mlocate]]</code> |
| | + | * <code>[[mlocate --help]]</code> |
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| − | [[apt install]] mlocate
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| − | | + | <code>[[/etc/cron.daily/mlocate]]</code> |
| − | /etc/cron.daily/mlocate
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| − | usr/bin/mlocate --help
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| − | Usage: locate [OPTION]... [PATTERN]...
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| − | Search for entries in a mlocate database.
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| − | -A, --all only print entries that match all patterns
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| − | -b, --basename match only the base name of path names
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| − | -c, --count only print number of found entries
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| − | -d, --database DBPATH use DBPATH instead of default database (which is
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| − | /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db)
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| − | -e, --existing only print entries for currently existing files
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| − | -L, --follow follow trailing symbolic links when checking file
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| − | existence (default)
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| − | -h, --help print this help
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| − | -i, --ignore-case ignore case distinctions when matching patterns
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| − | -p, --ignore-spaces ignore punctuation and spaces when matching patterns
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| − | -t, --transliterate ignore accents using iconv transliteration when
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| − | matching patterns
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| − | -l, --limit, -n LIMIT limit output (or counting) to LIMIT entries
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| − | -m, --mmap ignored, for backward compatibility
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| − | -P, --nofollow, -H don't follow trailing symbolic links when checking file
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| − | existence
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| − | -0, --null separate entries with NUL on output
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| − | -S, --statistics don't search for entries, print statistics about each
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| − | used database
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| − | -q, --quiet report no error messages about reading databases
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| − | -r, --regexp REGEXP search for basic regexp REGEXP instead of patterns
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| − | --regex patterns are extended regexps
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| − | -s, --stdio ignored, for backward compatibility
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| − | -V, --version print version information
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| − | -w, --wholename match whole path name (default)
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| − | Report bugs to https://pagure.io/mlocate.
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| | == Related terms == | | == Related terms == |
| | * [[Disk io]] | | * [[Disk io]] |
| − | | + | * [[updatedb.mlocate]] |
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| | == See also == | | == See also == |
| | + | * {{mlocate}} |
| | * {{locate}} | | * {{locate}} |
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| | [[Category:Linux]] | | [[Category:Linux]] |
