I know that on windows you can index your files to find things faster. Is there something like this for Ubuntu because when I search for something like /usr under files it says searching and it takes really long.
1 Answer
yes
sudo updatedb
then
locate foo
see http://www.linfo.org/locate.html
You can also use find
find /usr -name foo
see http://content.hccfl.edu/pollock/unix/findcmd.htm
For a graphical tool see Software for text search in files