findutils | utilities for finding files--find, xargs | Mehr ...
GNU findutils provides utilities to find files meeting specified criteria and perform various actions on the files which are found. This package contains 'find' and 'xargs'; however, 'locate' has been split off into a separate package.
locate | maintain and query an index of a directory tree | Mehr ...
updatedb generates an index of files and directories. GNU locate can be used to quickly query this index.