Repeat after me—"locate is simple and needs to be updated, find works when in a bind, but powerful and cryptic and can break things." Let's continue and begin with the explanations:
- The first diff command outputs the changes in the simple diff format. However, in the second instance when running the diff command, we use the -urN flag(s). -u stands for unified format, -r stands for recursive, and -N stands for a new file:
$ diff /etc/updatedb.conf ~/updatedb-v2.conf3c3< PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /var/spool /media /home/.ecryptfs /var/lib/schroot"---> PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /var/spool /media /home/.ecryptfs /var/lib/schroot /media /mount"$ diff -urN /etc/updatedb.conf ~/updatedb-v2.conf--- /etc/updatedb.conf 2014-11-18 02:54:29.000000000 ...
