Ubuntu find files

For example, we need to find a file called *.pem

We could use this method though a little bit slow:

find / -name "*.pem"

locate and variants need index files, but they work -really- faster. 'locate' is from GNU findutils. 'slocate' was recommended up to etch; it was a more 'secure' version of locate, 

users will not see files that they do not have acess to. 'mlocate' is recommended in lenny and newer, mlocate has a more efficient indexing mechanism.

sudo updatedb     #to update the index

mlocate *.pem