On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 14:19:04 -0400, Aruna Hewapathirane said: > Could well be ... but 'locate' shows me this: > > aruna@debian:~$ locate Makefile.normal > /usr/src/open-vm-tools-9.4.6/vmci/Makefile.normal > /var/lib/dkms/open-vm-tools/9.4.6/build/vmci/Makefile.normal Note that 'locate' doesn't actually walk through the file system, it greps through a file created by 'updatedb' which usually gets run from a crontab entry. As a result, 'locate' can report the existence of files that have actually been removed after the last updatedb run.
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