What is the difference between mlocate and slocate in Linux?
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Having gone through the directory I noticed that there is only the mlocate.cron file in comparison to what I have seen on other material where they cite slocate.cron. Is there a difference between these and their respective commands and if so what are they?
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/etc/cron.daily
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https://fedorahosted.org/mlocate/ explains that mlocate merges databases at each update, which offers a performance speedup since it can skip previously examined files. They are competing implementations, but mlocate is designed to be backwards comp…
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