If you have ever used the locate command within Terminal to find a file of yours that, for instance, ends in .doc, you might find that you end up with more than 60,000 hits on your system that you didn't create, and didn't want to know about. Hence, it may be beneficial to create a user-level database for locate that searches only your local directory structure, so that you only see what belongs to you.To do this, and have my new database updated automatically, I modified a copy of the locate database update program that came with the Mac, set up a crontab to update this database hourly, and then created an alias for my local locate, called llocate. Now when I type llocate .doc , I only find 584 .doc files, and I can rest assured that they are all mine! Read on for the how-to... Step 1: Copy and modify database update program I first copied the original program to a new directory, with this command:

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