How to Quick-Start Search / Find for Files / Directories on Debian

How to Locate Files/Directories on Debian Shell

Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-step How to Getting-Started Easily Finding/Searching/Looking for Files, Directories and Paths on Debian 7-Wheezy/8-Jessie/9-Stretch/10-Buster/11-Bullseye/12-Bookworm Desktops/Servers.

To try to Find the stuff in Debian we will make use of the Shell commands updatedb and locate.

updatedb creates or updates a database used by locate. If the database already exists, its data is reused to avoid rereading directories that have not changed.

updatedb is usually run daily by cron to update the default database.

1. Open a Shell session
   (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

   

2. Install the mlocate Package:

   sudo apt-get install mlocate

   If not Found then before Update the Apt database with:

   sudo apt-get update

   If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo

3. Getting-Started Searching with the locate Command Line Tool.

   Linux How to Use the locate Command
   The Link Contains How to SetUp and Uset the locate Command for Locating/Finding/Searching for Files, Directories, Images and Icons on Linux