Using GNU sort allows the use of the -z flag, which will ensure that
locate can correctly process path names containing a newline. Hence
there is an advantage to using GNU sort with GNU findutils.
However, it is not essential, if you don't want to process filenames
containing newlines.
The loca
Dear Developers, dear Package-Maintainer,
after upgrading the findutils package for Solaris from 4.1.20 to Version
4.2.27,
the updatedb script does not work anymore.
In the script, there is a hardcoded invocation of /usr/local/bin/sort.
Well, this location for sort might be true for your Systems,