alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 1 month agowhatever, it workslemmy.worldimagemessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up1151arrow-down17
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minus-squarealias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up19·1 month agoi don’t know what it is
minus-squaremyotheraccount@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 month agoLocate is like find, except it uses a cache (so finds things faster, provided your cache is up to date)
minus-squareMimicJar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·1 month agoThis is me every time. locate <thing> Not found. Bullshit! sudo updatedb locate <thing> Not found.
minus-squareMsFlammkuchen@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agolocate -i <thing> Not found.
minus-squaresem@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoHow did you eventually found it?
minus-squareDr. Quadragon ❌@mastodon.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month 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-up3·1 month agoAh. You were looking for thing_name, but it was called thing-name.
minus-squareOpenStars@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month agoIt would have been funnier to say that you didn’t know where it is. 🤪
minus-squarefoggy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoWait why have I never which which or locate locate before?
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!
locate <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 -a