"locate -e" limits your output to files in the database which still exist.
"Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:16:26PM +0100, john gennard wrote: > > which locate (after updatedb) shows as being present when in actual > > fact they are not there. I did not remove them by hand, it was only > > when trying to do so that I found this situation. > > > > Does anyone have any explanation of why this is so? > > Locate uses a database that is updated nightly on Debian. If those > files existed last night, but are gone today, then locate will still > show them to you. Most likely they were deleted automatically when you > uninstalled the package. > > noah > > -- > _______________________________________________________ > | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ > | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html > -- Kevin Dalley SETI Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED]
