I am dissatisfied by Windows' performance in locating files distributed on my computer. locate+updatedb under unix-like systems is much better. I think the indexing service is supposed to help with ...

The word apropos means “fitting and to the point”. As a command on a Linux system, its role is to identify commands that relate to the particular terms that you are asking about – such as files, lists ...

/usr/libexec/locate.updatedb is what you are looking for. I created a symlink in /usr/sbin called updatedb to maintain sanity. I found it best to sudo updatedb, but ...