Locate (Unix) (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Locate (Unix)" in English language version.

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Woods, James A. (1983-01-15). "Finding Files Fast". ;login:. Vol. 8, no. 1. Usenix. pp. 8–10. Retrieved 2016-03-27.

archlinux.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

man.archlinux.org

Gunderson, Steinar. "plocate(1)". man.archlinux.org. Arch manual pages. Retrieved 23 February 2023.

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carolina.mff.cuni.cz

Miloslav Trmač (2005). "mlocate". Archived from the original on 2006-04-11. Retrieved 2016-03-27. ...faster and does not trash the system caches as much...attempts to be compatible to GNU locate, when it does not conflict with slocate compatibility.

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Kevin Lindsay (1999). "Secure Locate". Archived from the original on 2005-05-07. Retrieved 2016-03-27. ...will also check file permissions and ownership so that users will not see files they do not have access to.

gnu.org (Global: 1,901^st place; English: 1,743^rd place)

"Finding Files". GNU. Free Software Foundation. 2012-11-17. Retrieved 2016-03-27. GNU locate and its associated utilities were originally written by James Woods, with enhancements by David MacKenzie.
James Youngman. "Database Formats". Archived from the original on 2024-05-30. Retrieved 2025-05-10. The 'slocate' database format is very similar to 'LOCATE02' and is also supported (in both updatedb and locate).

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"plocate". Kali Linux. Kali Linux Tools. Retrieved 23 February 2023.

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plocate.sesse.net

Gunderson, Steinar. "plocate, a much faster locate". plocate.sesse.net. Retrieved 23 February 2023.

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Miloslav Trmač (2005). "mlocate". Archived from the original on 2006-04-11. Retrieved 2016-03-27. ...faster and does not trash the system caches as much...attempts to be compatible to GNU locate, when it does not conflict with slocate compatibility.
Kevin Lindsay (1999). "Secure Locate". Archived from the original on 2005-05-07. Retrieved 2016-03-27. ...will also check file permissions and ownership so that users will not see files they do not have access to.
James Youngman. "Database Formats". Archived from the original on 2024-05-30. Retrieved 2025-05-10. The 'slocate' database format is very similar to 'LOCATE02' and is also supported (in both updatedb and locate).