Within the Kali Linux operating system, there are many methods by which a user can locate files and directories. In this section, I will introduce you to the find, locate, and which utilities. Each of these utilities performs similar tasks, but returns the requested information a bit differently from each other.

Before we use any of these commands, we must first execute the updatedb command to build a local database for each file within our current filesystem on Kali Linux. This process usually takes a few seconds to complete.

In the following section, we will take a deeper look into each of the Linux utilities and how they are used.