Hi team, There is a bug in mlocate version 0.26 (at least) which causes the locate(1) command to omit results which are only meant to be omitted when using the -e switch. -e, --existing Print only entries that refer to files existing at the time locate is run. A proof-of-concept is shown below. # renaming your file (works as documented) eclipse ~ # mkdir whatever eclipse ~ # touch whatever/whatever1 eclipse ~ # updatedb eclipse ~ # locate whatever1 /root/whatever/whatever1 eclipse ~ # mv whatever/whatever1 whatever/whatever2 eclipse ~ # locate whatever1 /root/whatever/whatever1 eclipse ~ # locate -e whatever1 # clean up eclipse ~ # rm whatever/whatever2 eclipse ~ # updatedb # renaming a directory containing your file (bug) eclipse ~ # locate whatever2 eclipse ~ # touch whatever/whatever2 eclipse ~ # updatedb eclipse ~ # locate whatever2 /root/whatever/whatever2 eclipse ~ # mv whatever whatever99 eclipse ~ # locate whatever2 eclipse ~ # locate -e whatever2 eclipse ~ # mv whatever99 whatever eclipse ~ # locate whatever2 /root/whatever/whatever2 eclipse ~ # locate -e whatever2 /root/whatever/whatever2
