Having gone through the /etc/cron.daily directory I noticed that there is only the mlocate.cron file in comparison to what I have seen on other material where they cite slocate.cron. Is there a difference between these and their respective commands and if so what are they?
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explains that mlocate merges databases at each update, which offers a performance speedup since it can skip previously examined files.
They are competing implementations, but mlocate is designed to be backwards compatible with slocate and is slowly replacing it.
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