So you want to use locate on FreeBSD, but with recent changes

Just run the weekly locate script as root.

Sun, 13. Jun 2010, 3:26:17
cmanns@pts/4 [bsd:/home/cmanns] # /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate

Rebuilding locate database:
Sun, 13. Jun 2010, 3:27:58

Enjoy (Protip: tab complete etpewee31 are you really gonna read all that? Don’t just try to complete dir names so it wont pop up with a tree (or if it does was probably quicker then copy/paste if it wasnt the same, or manually typing.)