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updatedb/locate?

• smoothgrammer 4y ago
  I'm shocked so many people forget this
  • cb321 4y ago
    https://plocate.sesse.net/ https://plocate.sesse.net/ is even better
• neura 4y ago
  updatedb is expensive to run and is usually run by a cron job, whereas something like mdfind on macos uses spotlight, which is kept up to date with all filesystem changes (or at least reasonably fast). Anybody know of something like that for linux?