locate

[Ryan Thompson]

george wrote to questions at freebsd.org:

> I am getting this error upon running periodic weekly it looks to me
> that there is a very long directory but I dont know a command to find
> this directory. can someone help?

# find / | awk '{ if (length >= 1024) print }'

It's linear on the number of inodes, but it should be accurate

> locate: integer out of +-MAXPATHLEN (1024): 1028

- Ryan

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