How to disable the "locate" command in Mac OS? According to this article, I can use this command:

sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locate.plist


To enable "locate" command to find files. However, recently I find this command not useful anymore and want to shutdown the background service/daemon. Does anyone have ideas about how to disable it or shutdown it? Thanks!
You can disable it like this:
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locate.plist

Keep in mind, this process only runs periodically to make the database that caches the results, so your locate results will be static and not change from the time you unload the &quot;refresh task&quot;.