Use the locate command of linux to quickly find files or directories
Do not know how to use linux's locate command to quickly find files or directories? In fact, it is not difficult to solve this problem. Let the editor take you to learn how to solve it. I hope you will gain a lot after reading this article.
The locate command is actually another way of writing find-name, but much faster than the latter, because it searches a database / var/lib/locatedb instead of a specific directory, and it's worth noting that it varies from version to version. Some versions are located in / var/lib/mlocate/mlocatedb, and others are in / var/lib/slocate/slocate.db, and this database contains all the local file information.
The Linux system automatically creates this database and automatically updates it once a day, so you can't find the most recently changed files using the locate command. To avoid this, you can manually update the database using the updatedb command before using locate.
Syntax format: locate [parameters] [file]
Common parameters:
-d or-- database= specify the directory where the database is located-- help display help-- version displays version information
Reference example
Search for all files that begin with sh in the / etc directory:
[root@linuxcool ~] # locate / etc/sh
/ etc/shadow
/ etc/shadow-
/ etc/shells
Search for files that begin with k in the / etc directory:
[root@linuxcool ~] # locate / etc/k
/ etc/kdump.conf
/ etc/kernel
/ etc/krb5.conf
/ etc/krb5.conf.d
/ etc/ksmtuned.conf
/ etc/kernel/postinst.d
/ etc/kernel/postinst.d/51-dracut-rescue-postinst.sh
Find all files related to pwd:
[root@linuxcool ~] # locate pwd
/ boot/extlinux/pwd.c32
/ etc/.pwd.lock
/ usr/bin/pwd
/ usr/bin/pwdx
/ usr/include/pwd.h
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