GNU locate

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GNU locate is a Unix utility to find files on filesystems. It searches through a prebuilt database of files generated by updatedb and compressed using incremental encoding. It is significantly faster than find, but requires the database to be updated regularly.

It is a part of GNU Findutils.

It can also be used to index network filesystems.

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