No 'locate' cmd?

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I like to use the ‘locate’ cmd to search for files. I can never get ‘find’ to work, and ‘locate’ always does… at least on other Linux OS’s.

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Then install it.

pamac install mlocate

Yes, the package is called mlocate.

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Most official ISOs have findutils to provide /usr/bin/find

But only Xfce ISO includes mlocate to provide /usr/bin/locate

Manjaro extra repository also has plocate

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I dont know what your issues are with find.
Its what I use for most things.

It may also be worth noting that find and locate work a bit differently.

Syntax of course … but the main point would be that locate uses a constructed database …
This requires some extra resources, but should return speed improvements over find.
It can also mean that the database is incorrect - locate may return invalid results depending on the validity of the db.*

I will also mention the difference of plocate and mlocate

  • mlocate should only return files accessible by the user.

  • plocate converts the locate db into an index that purports to be smaller and faster.

* - This can be mitigated by making sure to updatedb. The 2 packages also offer 2 different timers for this purpose. updatedb.timer (mlocate) and plocate-updatedb.timer (plocate)

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plocate nvim  1 ✘
pread: Short read (file corrupted?)

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Did you start one of the timers and/or update the db as mentioned above ?

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