[Courses][Linux comands] Finding things with locate, find, and grep

[Sue Stones]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 05:30 pm, Carla Schroder wrote:
> Locate is the easiest. It maintains its own database of files on your
> system, so it's blazing fast. Some distros install with a cron job that
> rebuilds the locate database regularly. However you do it, it must be
> updated periodically:

Wow, I didn't know that locate existed, fantastic. 

thanks
sue