mlocate

mlocate is a locate/updatedb implementation. The 'm' stands for "merging": updatedb reuses the existing database to avoid rereading most of the file system, which makes updatedb faster and does not trash the system caches as much.

• apt install mlocate
• Amazon Linux: yum install mlocate
• mlocate --help

/etc/cron.daily/mlocate

Related terms

• Disk io
• updatedb.mlocate

See also

• mlocate
• locate, mlocate, updatedb, plocate, mdfind