Unix locate command for present working directory

Question

The locate command in Unix will return the path related to the attribute given (for example, locate abc_file). What is the command to locate a file in the present working directory structure?

Answer 1

If you use wildcards (as *) locate considers the pattern to be an absolute path. Therefore you could e.g. do:

locate "$PWD*/abc_file"

This will find all files abc_file under your $PWD and its subfolders (as long as they are in the locate database).