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How to Install “locate Command” to Find Files in Linux

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Aaron Kili
Nov 16, 2017

Tecmint: The locate is a command line utility for finding files by name in Linux, just like find command. However, it works more efficiently compared to its counterpart; it uses one or more databases populated by the updatedb program and prints file names matching at least one of the patterns (a user provides) to standard output.
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