Find and Locate commands Flashcards

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When you want to use locate command, what is nessesary to do in order locate command runs correct?

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What is the difference between locate and find commands?

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locate simply looks its database and reports the file location. find does not use a database, it traverses all the directories and their sub directories and looks for files matching the given criterion.

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3
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main option that you have to use with find command, give syntax

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find / -iname ‘file*’ -type f

hey, find in the system file, case sensitive off, file name begins from file and I dont remember what’s in the end

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