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From: Alarig Le Lay <alarig@××××××××××.fr>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] locate can not find a file
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:32:17
Message-Id: 20170315153158.5kq2tq6gto452qe4@mew.swordarmor.fr
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] locate can not find a file by thelma@sys-concept.com
1 On mer. 15 mars 09:10:26 2017, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
2 > Yes, I run as root: updatedb
3 > But when run:
4 > locate consent_extraction*
5 >
6 > It only list one file:
7 > /home/fd/consent_extraction1.pdf (this is a link file)
8 > /home/fd/business/forms/consent_extraction1.pdf
9 >
10 > It can not find: "consent_extraction.pdf" both files are in same directory
11 >
12 > ll business/forms/
13 > total 688
14 > ...
15 > -rw-r--r-- 1 fd fd 63032 Mar 15 08:52 consent_extraction1.pdf
16 > -rw-r--r-- 1 fd fd 397649 Mar 14 20:05 consent_extraction.pdf
17 >
18 > I observe the same behaviour on my local machine and remote machine.
19 >
20 > Running "find" finds both files
21 >
22 > find . -name '*consent_extraction*'
23 > ./business/forms/consent_extraction.pdf
24 > ./business/forms/consent_extraction1.pdf
25 > ./consent_extraction1.pdf
26 >
27 > Why?
28
29 Hi,
30
31 Do you have file consent_extraction1.pdf in your working directory? In
32 that case, your shell will begin by expending your asterisk and you will
33 really look for consent_extraction1.pdf.
34
35 --
36 alarig

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Re: [gentoo-user] locate can not find a file thelma@×××××××××××.com
[gentoo-user] Re: locate can not find a file Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@×××××.com>