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Linux Tutorial: Never lose another precious file on your filesystems again with mlocate

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Linux-Server-Security.com; By Chris Binnie 		Mail this story
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Being asked to find needles in haystacks is all too familiar a task for Sysadmins.

On a busy machine there can be files in their hundreds of thousands present on your filesystems.

What do you do when a pesky colleague needs to check that a single configuration file is up-to-date but can’t remember where it is located?

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