Talk:locate (Unix)

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Why reference searchmonkey but not Beagle, Tracker, Strigi, etc. PuerExMachina 05:31, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"GNU locate is a Unix utility to find files on filesystems" - what's the point? The files darn well better be exactly where I put them. So why do I need an updatedb cron job thrashing my disks every day? Are there other automatic processes that tend to forget where they put things, and need this locate utility to track them down? 70.162.156.229 (talk) 15:17, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

History[edit]

locate was used in the early 1980 when disks have been very slow and a find thus caused the whole system to slow down.

Then in the late 1980, locate was abandoned by SunOS because locate did use the 8th bit in characters to code a bigram based compression that no longer works when character sets beyond ASCII are used. Schily (talk) 10:06, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Catfish[edit]

Why is Catfish (software) a redirect to this article? --2001:16B8:2C72:1D00:CC6D:5366:1084:CC15 (talk) 18:59, 14 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

plocate[edit]

plocate is a much faster locate and should be added to this article 2602:4B:A420:1500:56BC:4FF5:25B9:F21A (talk) 01:30, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]