[Sesse__]

And plocate is yet orders of magnitude faster than GNU grep. :-) And updates its database faster. You don't specify which locate you're using, but mlocate and BSD locate are basically obsolete by now.

(Disclosure: I'm the author of plocate.)

[cf]

I'm a huge fan and use your program basically daily. I don't know why it's not the default in most systems.

[Sesse__]

Thank you! It's becoming the default now, slowly (e.g., it will be the default in Debian and Ubuntu from the next releases, and Fedora is in a process to make it replace mlocate right now). It's just a tad too new, only about a year since 1.0.0. :-)