Difference between slocate and locate cmd's

young_rhkid · 10-12-2007, 11:52 AM

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