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  •   locate command examples 

Using locate command you can quickly search for the location of a
specific file (or group of files). Locate command uses the database created by
updatedb.




The example below shows all files in the system that contains the word
crontab in it.



$ locate crontab

/etc/anacrontab
/etc/crontab
/usr/bin/crontab
/usr/share/doc/cron/examples/crontab2english.pl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/crontab.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/anacrontab.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/crontab.5.gz
/usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax/crontab.vim



 
 
 

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