This tutorial shows how to use locate command to quickly find files in your Linux system. In Ubuntu Linux, the locate command is provided by the plocate package. It’s very fast command line search tool, that can find all files in the system matching the given pattern. It rarely needs to scan through its entire […]
When you need to search for some files in Linux, you might typically use find or locate commands. So, now you have a new alternative called plocate.
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plocate is a newer, much faster locate tool for findning files on the command-line. It’s a drop-in replacement for mlocate in nearly all aspects, including reusing the mlocate database, and it’s fast on SSDs and HDDs alike.
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