How to Install Locate on a Fedora Server
February 26, 2015 by Atlantic.Net NOC ( 43 ) under VPS Hosting
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Introduction
The Locate command is often the easiest and fastest way to find the location of files and directories. This how-to will show you how to install locate on a Fedora server.
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Installing locate on Fedora Cloud Server
The command to install locate on a Fedora is:
yum install mlocate
You are not able to locate anything yet until you have updated the database for locate. Run the below command to do this:
updatedb
Now, you can search for locations of files and directories. Check back for new updates.
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