locate (Unix)
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This article is about the Unix utility. For a definition of the word "locate", see the Wiktionary entry locate.
locate is a Unix utility first created in 1983[1] used to find files on filesystems. It searches through a prebuilt database of files generated by updatedb or a daemon and compressed using incremental encoding. It is significantly faster than find, but requires the database to be updated regularly.
The GNU version is a part of GNU Findutils.
Some versions can also be used to index network filesystems.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- – FreeBSD General Commands Manual
- GNU Findutils
Variants:
- slocate (Secure Locate) at the Wayback Machine (archived February 4, 2009)
- : slocate – Linux General Commands Manual on linuxmanpages.com
- mlocate - faster updates
- rlocate - always up-to-date
- KwickFind - KDE GUI frontend for locate
- Locate32 for Windows Windows analog of GNU locate with GUI, released under GNU license
- linux locate linux locate information
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