locate
Find filenames quickly.
More information: https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/locate.1.html.
- Look for pattern in the database. Note: the database is recomputed periodically (usually weekly or daily):
locate "{{pattern}}"
- Look for a file by its exact filename (a pattern containing no globbing characters is interpreted as
*pattern*
):
locate */{{filename}}
- Recompute the database. You need to do it if you want to find recently added files:
sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb