How to run updatedb command in the background in Linux

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How to run updatedb command in the background in Linux

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As described in Tip Linux: Finding Files , locate is a very useful command to find files.

The only thing the statement updatedb needs a while to do is to crawl the disks. Therefore, you should send the process with an appended &in the background:

updatedb &
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