How Commands Are Locating in Unix?
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How does Unix find commands?

locate is a Unix utility which serves to find files on filesystems. It searches through a prebuilt database of files generated by the updatedb command or by a daemon and compressed using incremental encoding. locate command is also included in MacOS. …

How find the location of a file in Unix?

The find command will begin looking in the /dir/to/search/ and proceed to search through all accessible subdirectories. The filename is usually specified by the -name option. You can use other matching criteria too: -name file-name – Search for given file-name.

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