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Forcing the first build of the locate database - useful on new systems

Initialising the locate database on OS X

From a fresh OS install, there is no locate database.

The database is built and automatically rebuilt at some odd hour once a week. You can force the first build by typing the following:

sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb

http://www.hmug.org/man/1/locate.html

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