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mlocateI immediately had flashbacks of diagnosing bad I/O performance on CentOS 5 servers. That was the week when I learned what updatedb is and why it was always running in the background (there was a lot of files)
Do you have to wear the fedora to run this command?
No sorry, I should have elaborated. The package name is
mlocatebut the command islocate. Occasionally runupdatedbas it populates an sqlite db with every file on your system that you can then list out usinglocatefollowed by the filename you want to locate.I love locate! I have a cronjob that updates the db every night, then I can just find a file without having to think about where it is