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For the same reason we want "locate". Except it would be nice to be able to query on many more attributes. And without having the machine be unresponsive for a

by Peaker 11y ago

For the same reason we want "locate". Except it would be nice to be able to query on many more attributes. And without having the machine be unresponsive for a while every day, only to find that "updatedb" decided to churn the machine.

semi-extrinsic 11y ago
Have you tried mlocate? It has a much more sane updatedb, reading only the changes to the filesystem. https://fedorahosted.org/mlocate/ https://fedorahosted.org/mlocate/