NAME
slocate - Security Enhanced version of the GNU Locate
SYNOPSIS
slocate [-qi] [-d ] [--database=]
slocate [-i] [-r ] [--regexp=]
slocate [-qv] [-o ] [--output=]
slocate [-e ] [-f ] <[-l ] [-c] <[-U ] [-u]>
slocate [-Vh] [--version] [--help]
DESCRIPTION
Secure Locate provides a secure way to index and quickly search for
files on your system. It uses incremental encoding just like GNU locate
to compress its database to make searching faster, but it will also store
file permissions and ownership so that users will not see files they do
not have access to.
This manual page documents the GNU version of
slocate.
slocate
Enables system users to search entire filesystems without
displaying unauthorized files.
OPTIONS
- -u
-
Create slocate database starting at path /.
- -U dir
-
Create slocate database starting at path dir.
- -e
-
Exclude directories from the slocate database.
- -f
-
Exclude files on specific file systems from the slocate database.
- -c
-
Parse '/etc/updatedb.conf' when updating the slocate database.
- -l
-
Security level.
0 turns security checks off. This will make
searchs faster.
1 turns security checks on. This is the default.
- -i
-
Does a case insensitive search.
- -q
-
Quiet mode. Error messages are suppressed.
- -n
-
Limit the amount of results shown to .
- -r
-
--regexp=
Search the database using a basic POSIX regular
expression.
- -o
-
--output=
Specifies the database to create.
- -d
-
--database=
Specifies the path of databases to search in.
- -h
-
--help
Display this help.
- -v
-
--verbose
Verbose mode. Display files when creating database.
- -V
-
--version
Display version.
EXAMPLES
locate project
Lists all files that contain the string "project". If that command does not work you will need to run the command:
slocate -u
This command builds the slocate database which will allow you to use the locate (slocate) command. It may take a few minutes to run.
SEE ALSO
locatedb(1L),
find(5L),
updatedb(1L),
xargs(1L)
Important:
Use the man command (% man) to see how a command is used on your
particular computer.
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