Find files with locate

Whenever I am looking for a file, my first reflex is to use the find command. After all, it was made to do just that: search for files in a directory hierarchy.

find . -name "*rib*pdf"

Confession time! I cannot remember how find work without checking the man or tldr. To me, find is a tar...

To my find issue, I found a solution: locate.

locate "*rib*pdf"

My current distribution already has it. If yours do not, you can search for the package mlocate.

I am aware of fd, but I did not try it yet. It may be even better.

source:

• How can I recursively find all files in current and subfolders based on wildcard matching?
• Linux find file names with given string recursively
• The fastest way to find files by filename — mlocate (locate commands)

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Tags: linux, shell, bash

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