tldr/pages/common/slocate.md

slocate

Secure variant of GNU Locate. See also: locate. More information: https://manned.org/slocate.

• Enable quiet mode to suppress error messages:

slocate -q

• Limit the number of results shown:

slocate -n {{number}}

• Build an slocate database starting at path /:

slocate -u

• Build an slocate database starting at a given directory:

slocate -U {{path/to/directory}}

• Update an slocate database using the default /etc/updatedb.conf configuration:

slocate -c

• Set the security level of slocate, with 0 being disabled, and 1 being secure:

slocate -l {{0|1}}

• Specify the database that slocate should search in:

slocate {{[-d|--database]}} {{path/to/directory}}

• Search the slocate database using a specific regex string:

slocate {{[-r|--regexp]}} {{regex}}