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Re: Is updatedb a bash script or a binary executable?


From: Andreas Metzler
Subject: Re: Is updatedb a bash script or a binary executable?
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 20:12:42 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

On 2011-11-08 Peng Yu <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Andreas Metzler <address@hidden> wrote:
[...]
> ~$ dpkg -S bin/updatedb
> mlocate: /usr/bin/updatedb.mlocate

> Does updatedb.mlocate has anything to do with findutils?

mlocate is a different program than GNU locate providing the same
functionality. See http://lmgtfy.com/?q=mlocate

cu andreas



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