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How come the locate command doesn't find obvious files?
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Being somewhat lazy and not wanting to run sudo updatedb and, since I have a computer that can work for me, it runs sudo updatedb every 15 minutes so I don’t have to.
Use sudo crontab -e and find this line:
# m h dom mon dow command
insert below it:
*/15 * * * * /usr/bin/updatedb
Then press Ctrl+O to save the file (write it Out) and then Ctrl+X to eXit.
If you’ve just created the files in the last 15 minutes though you will still need to run:
sudo updatedb
… to manually update the indices used by locate command.