From b60bfa2a8508872d65b3e4b6d734f80041a3c081 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 23:21:09 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Correct plocate.1; we have a native updatedb now. --- plocate.1 | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/plocate.1 b/plocate.1 index 53354dc..864a4a7 100644 --- a/plocate.1 +++ b/plocate.1 @@ -12,13 +12,13 @@ plocate \- find files by name, quickly finds all files on the system matching the given pattern (or all of the patterns if multiple are given). It does this by means of an index made by -.BR plocate-build (8), -which in turn reads the database made by -.BR updatedb (8). +.BR updatedb (8) +or (less commonly) converted from another index by +.BR plocate-build (8). -plocate is largely compatible with +plocate is largely argument-compatible with .BR mlocate (1), -and reuses its database to create its index, but is significantly +but is significantly faster. In particular, it rarely needs to scan through its entire database, unless the pattern is very short (less than three bytes) or you want to search for a regular expression. It does not try to -- 2.39.2