Locate basic usage find files and directories
locate file
# example
locate httpd.conf
locate path
# example
locate /X11/
Find (locate) ignore-case (not case sensitive)
locate -i file
# example
locate -i netbeans
Find (locate) only file name (basename)
locate -b file
# example
locate -b shadow
Limit locate output
locate -l 100 file
# example
locate -l 50 conf
Print number of found entries
locate -c file
# example
locate -c conf
Print locate statistics
locate -S
Find (locate) with full file info
Simply locate something and pipe output to ls command.
locate file |xargs ls -lah
Want to know even more
Check help and manual
locate --help
man locate
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