News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
Fish shell, the popular free open-source command line shell, release new major 4.0 version yesterday.
Shell is a program that interprets and executes the commands you type in the terminal. Linux has different type shells, e.g., Bourne Shell (sh), GNU Bourne-Again Shell (bash), and C Shell (csh). And, current Ubuntu releases default to bash shell.
This tutorial shows how to use locate command to quickly find files in your Linux system.
In Ubuntu Linux, the locate command is provided by the plocate package. It’s very fast command line search tool, that can find all files in the system matching the given pattern. It rarely needs to scan through its entire database, and most I/O is done asynchronously, but the results are synchronized.
Most importantly plocate is easy to use! I regularly use it to search app icon images that are in use in most pages of this website.
