Posts tagged ‘locate’

How to get locate installed on OpenSuse 11.1

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It seems the locate application is not included on OpenSuse 11.1,  simply:

sudo zypper in  findutils-locate

to install it.

5 ways to find files in linux in Linux

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First off lets check to see if findutils and findutils-locate are installed.  You can check by performing a:

rpm -qa | grep findutil (in Ubuntu/Debian you can check synaptic to see if they’re installed).

It should produce results such as this:

# rpm -qa | grep findutils
findutils-4.2.31-24
findutils-locate-4.2.31-24

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