centos安装locate命令
centos6.3刚初始化安装完毕，有个配置文件不知道存在什么地方，想用locate命令来查找下，发现系统提示，找不到该命令。以前经常用的命令为什么找不到了呢？？？原来现在的6.3的已经将原来的locate命令因为效率低下的问题，已经弃用了。用现在最新的mlocate中的locate来代替原来的locate命令了。
所以大家想继续使用locate命令的话，就先安装一下吧。
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运行完毕上面的两条命令之后，就可以使用自己久违的locate命令了。
附locate的参数.
Usage: locate [OPTION]… [PATTERN]…
Search for entries in a mlocate database.-b, –basename match only the base name of path names
-c, –count only print number of found entries
-d, –database DBPATH use DBPATH instead of default database (which is
/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db)
-e, –existing only print entries for currently existing files
-L, –follow follow trailing symbolic links when checking file
existence (default)
-h, –help print this help
-i, –ignore-case ignore case distinctions when matching patterns
-l, –limit, -n LIMIT limit output (or counting) to LIMIT entries
-m, –mmap ignored, for backward compatibility
-P, –nofollow, -H don’t follow trailing symbolic links when checking file
existence
-0, –null separate entries with NUL on output
-S, –statistics don’t search for entries, print statistics about each
used database
-q, –quiet report no error messages about reading databases
-r, –regexp REGEXP search for basic regexp REGEXP instead of patterns
–regex patterns are extended regexps
-s, –stdio ignored, for backward compatibility
-V, –version print version information
-w, –wholename match whole path name (default)原文:http://www.yuweixian.com/linux/centos-install-locate.html