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- LOCATE(1L) LOCATE(1L)
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- NAME
- locate - list files in a database that match a pattern
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- SYNOPSIS
- locate pattern...
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- DESCRIPTION
- This manual page documents the GNU version of locate. For
- each given pattern, which can contain shell-style metachar-
- acters, locate searches a database of file pathnames and
- displays the pathnames that contain the pattern.
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- The database contains a list of the files that were on the
- system whenever the database was last updated. The fre-
- quency with which the database is updated and the direc-
- tories for which it contains entries are configurable by the
- system administrator.
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