Solved: WARNING: The locate database (/var/db/locate.database) does not exist

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Linux is great but at times after you update your mac it disables some key command lines which are really helpful for developers. For example today I just discovered that my locate command was either not not working or was missing after the update. I received the error below:

WARNING: The locate database (/var/db/locate.database) does not exist.

After some investigation I finally figured it out that the database had to be rebuild again so a simple command line did the trick.

Open your terminal.app the type copy and paste this line of code :

/usr/libexec/locate.updatedb

This command will succefully update and rebuild your DB. Note that this might take a awhile so be patient and if you get an error like this after its finished just ignore as it will still work.

/usr/libexec/locate.updatedb: line 97: /var/db/locate.database: Permission denied

Happy locating!!!