Quickly Find Any File in Linux with the locate Command

As you become more experienced with Linux, finding important files when you need them can be a real nuisance. Thankfully, we have a handful of tools available to help us find things. In this episode of the Linux Crash Course series, we'll explore one of those tools: The locate command.

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00:00 - Intro
00:54 - Accessing/installing the locate command
02:39 - Basic usage of the locate command in Linux
04:16 - Understanding updatedb in regard to locate
05:14 - A quick mention regarding my new Ansible course
06:27 - Case insensitive searches with locate
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[TechDogeth]

Seems useful for finding configuration files that sometimes move around, change name or differ by distribution since those are likely not going to change location once present. Makes finding that forum post about the file more useful if you can locate where it is on your system.

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Thanks for crawling out of bed to educate us.

[HazexDimond]

dude looks chill af
thanks for the vid 👍

[CheapHomeTech]

There used to be something I'd install that would index all my thousands of pdf books. I forget whether it did the epubs and such. Or whether it was able to handle text files. Maybe you can find this and do a video on it.

[asuka_the_void_witch]

is there nothing like voidtools Everything for linux?

[stemid]

As a 25 year veteran of Linux I never use locate. Always find.

[Gigi-zykx]

awesome. Appreciate your time and efforts.

[Songfugel]

So basically a less versatile MS Dos dir command with an index. I just wish it was a more well known baseline feature, so often have I missed something exactly like this, and this is the first time I have ever heard of it 😅

[gmc]

I wish there was a simple option to tell locate to start at the current directory. I know you can use regex the do that, but you'd think "start at current directory" would be a popular request,

[bret-ufpp]

This video was so out of left field! Thank you man! 💖😘