How to Install the Locate Command?
I Wish to Have the Command Locate in Ubuntu 12.04 (Which Is Used for Finding Files. I Believe There Is Such a Command but I Cannot See It in Ubuntu 12.04 Is It...
I wish to have the command locate in ubuntu 12.04 (which is used for finding files. I believe there is such a command but I cannot see it in ubuntu 12.04 Is it part of any package?
1 Answer
sudo apt-get install mlocate should install the 'locate' command.
mlocate maintains a database of all your files and is re-indexed once a day by default. If you want it to re-index immediately then run sudo updatedb from the command line.
If you get a cannot stat error when you run locate, then you need to run sudo updatedb to populate the database, just as if you wanted to re-index immediately.
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