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young_rhkid 10-12-2007 11:52 AM
Difference between slocate and locate cmd's
 
Out of curiousity, can someone explain the difference between using the 'slocate' and the 'locate' commands?

The_JinJ 10-12-2007 12:41 PM
AFAIK the main difference is that slocate doesn't index the directories and files you don't have access to so doesn't throw up auth errors like locate

tredegar 10-13-2007 02:52 AM
On my system, they are the same:
Code:
tgar@vaio:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/locate
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2007-02-24 07:30 /usr/bin/locate -> slocate

The_JinJ 10-13-2007 06:01 AM
That's true - locate links to slocate. It is a replacement for locate used by almost all new distros


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