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Finding Files

7.2 Invoking locate

locate [option...] pattern...

--database=path

-d path

Instead of searching the default file name database, search the file name databases in path, which is a colon-separated list of database file names. You can also use the environment variable LOCATE_PATH to set the list of database files to search. The option overrides the environment variable if both are used.

--help

Print a summary of the options to locate and exit.

--version

Print the version number of locate and exit.