locate is a Unix utility first created in 1983[1] used to find files on filesystems. It searches through a prebuilt database of files generated by updatedb or a daemon and compressed using incremental encoding. It is significantly faster than find, but requires the database to be updated regularly.
The GNU version is a part of GNU Findutils.
Some versions can also be used to index network filesystems.
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