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minus-squaremyotheraccount@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·4 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-up12·4 days agoThis is me every time. locate <thing> Not found. Bullshit! sudo updatedb locate <thing> Not found.
minus-squareMsFlammkuchen@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 days agolocate -i <thing> Not found.
minus-squaresem@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoHow did you eventually found it?
minus-squareDr. Quadragon ❌@mastodon.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 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-squareapftwb@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoAh. You were looking for thing_name, but it was called thing-name.
minus-squareOpenStars@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 days agoIt would have been funnier to say that you didn’t know where it is. 🤪
minus-squarefoggy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 days agoWait why have I never which which or locate locate before?
minus-squareBlack616Angel@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up5·4 days agoPeople like this will have to run updatedb every time, when they search for stuff. (What’s a cronjob?)
What is wrong with
locate?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.locate -i <thing> Not found.How did you eventually found it?
Type the correct filename.
This is the way.
@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
Ah. You were looking for
thing_name, but it was calledthing-name.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?
type -aPeople like this will have to run updatedb every time, when they search for stuff.
(What’s a cronjob?)