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Finding Files with locate


Notes:

Most modern distributions run updatedb through cron (the job execution scheduler) daily.

Sometimes you suddenly listen your hard disk spinning wildly for a couple of minutes, and then it stops. Your computer hasn't gone mad – it's updatedb doing its daily chores.

An outdated index is practically useless, since it will not reflect the real contents of your filesystem. So running updatedb at least weekly is recommended.