[Gllug] shell quoting problem

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Wed Jul 2 10:27:53 UTC 2008


On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 11:08:18AM +0100, t.clarke wrote:
> Silly question possibly;
> 
> but does not 'locate' require the database to be up-to-date from a 'cron'
> run or similar ?  - in which case recently created files could get missed !

Yes: but I knew that this was not the case here; if it had I would simply have typed:
	updatedb

But this is not the issue.

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