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 4.2 Database Formats
 ====================
 
 The file name databases contain lists of files that were in particular
 directory trees when the databases were last updated.  The file name
 database format changed starting with GNU 'locate' version 4.0 to allow
 machines with different byte orderings to share the databases.
 
    GNU 'locate' can read both the old and new database formats.
 However, old versions of 'locate' (on other Unix systems, or GNU
 'locate' before version 4.0) produce incorrect results if run against a
 database in something other than the old format.
 
    Support for the old database format will eventually be discontinued,
 first in 'updatedb' and later in 'locate'.
 
    If you run 'locate --statistics', the resulting summary indicates the
 type of each 'locate' database.  You select which database format
 'updatedb' will use with the '--dbformat' option.
 

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