Security Enhanced version of GNU Locate. Secure Locate provides a secure way to index and quickly search for files on your system. It uses incremental encoding just like GNU locate to compress its database to make searching faster, but it will also store file permissions and ownership so that users will not see files they do not have access to.
Syntax
slocate [-qi] [-d path] [--database=path] search string
slocate [-i] [-r regexp] [--regexp=regexp]
slocate [-qv] [-o file] [--output=file]
slocate [-e dir1,dir2,...] [-f fstype1,...] <[-l level] [-c] <[-U path] [-u]>
slocate [-Vh] [--version] [--help]
Options
-u Create slocate database starting at path /.
-U dir Create slocate database starting at path dir.
-e dir1,dir2,...
Exclude directories from the slocate database.
-f fstype1,...
Exclude files on specific file systems from the slocate database.
-c Parse '/etc/updatedb.conf' when updating the slocate database.
-l level
Security level. 0 turns security checks off.
This will make search faster. 1 turns security checks on. This is the default.
-i Do a case insensitive search.
-q Quiet mode. Error messages are suppressed.
-n num Limit the amount of results shown to num.
-r regexp
--regexp=regexp Search the database using a basic POSIX regular expression.
-o file
--output=file The database to create.
-d path
--database=path The path of databases to search in.
-h
--help Display this help.
-v
--verbose Verbose mode. Display files when creating database.
-V
--version Display version.
slocate enables system users to search entire filesystems without displaying unauthorized files.
“The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven” ~ John Milton
Related linux commands:
locate - GNU Locate.
find - Search for files that meet a desired criteria.
fnmatch
weekly.conf
Equivalent Windows command:
DIR /S - Display a list of files and folders.