Searching files on linux
To find files quickly on the redhat based distributions (fedora,centos,rhel,etc)
You need to first index the file names before you can search them quickly for this command is
updatedb &
man updatedb
& (lets you to run the command in background so you can do something now
in shell in mean time)
then after it is done.
you can find files using command locate
locate [filename or part of filename]
Example
[xxx@server1 plugins]$ locate wysiwyg
/scripts/wysiwygpro_cleanup
[xxx@server1 plugins]$
man locate
You have to update the index periodically else it will be outdated and not pretty useful as it should be
so add this to your cron job to make it run once daily
$crontab -e
1 1 * * * /usr/bin/updatedb
This will update it daily to the db
If you dont want to index it daily & If your files rarely change you
can change it weekly or monthly by just changing it accordingly on crontab
making , editing crontab is out of subject of this article but the
simple way is
crontab -e & paste that cron command and then save it.
