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Seems like

alias locate='mdfind'

is in order (on my system).



mdfind is basically orthogonal to locate (doesn't match individual files inside packages; handles wildcards differently), but it does produce find(1)-compatible output, which is nice:

http://jasomill.at/mdfind-dired.el




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