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by mi_lk 1494 days ago
updatedb/locate?
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updatedb is expensive to run and is usually run by a cron job, whereas something like mdfind on macos uses spotlight, which is kept up to date with all filesystem changes (or at least reasonably fast).

Anybody know of something like that for linux?

I'm shocked so many people forget this