find / ... and much simpler to use. (Run updatedb often to keep the locate file database up-to-date.)"/>
 

Find Any File Fast

Need to find a system configuration file but only remember a part of its name? Use locate. It's faster than running find / ... and much simpler to use. (Run updatedb often to keep the locate file database up-to-date.)
Wednesday, September 7th, 2005

Need to find a system configuration file but only remember a part of its name? Use locate. It’s faster than running find / … and much simpler to use. (Run updatedb often to keep the locate file database up-to-date.)

Martin Streicher is the founder of Locomotive, an expert Rails consultancy. Formerly, he was Editor-in-Chief of Linux Magazine from 2002 to 2007. You can contact him at martin.streicher@linux-mag.com and follow him on Twitter.

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