Locate only finds files by looking up the name in a database. Once a day it regenerates the database.
If you're just looking for a filename, and you don't mind it being anywhere up to 24 hours old (sometimes more, but rarely), then ocate is a FAR faster way to do things.
Find, on the other hand can do WAY more tests than just the filename, and it can do way more things with a file it finds than just print it. The find command syntax is actually a primative programming language. and you can take actions based on the file type file syatem type mtime, ctime atime file size, owner etc. etc.
Most, recent, versions of find can even tar up certain matched files.
'Man find` for nore info on what find is capable of.
Ankit Jain wrote:
Which is more efficient? /if both perform the same work and are not different then why shoudl we have 2 ?
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