Re: [gentoo-user] locate can not find a file

On 03/15/2017 09:31 AM, Alarig Le Lay wrote:
> On mer. 15 mars 09:10:26 2017, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
>> Yes, I run as root: updatedb
>> But when run:
>> locate consent_extraction*
>>
>> It only list one file:
>> /home/fd/consent_extraction1.pdf (this is a link file)
>> /home/fd/business/forms/consent_extraction1.pdf
>>
>> It can not find: "consent_extraction.pdf" both files are in same directory
>>
>> ll business/forms/
>> total 688
>> ...
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 fd fd  63032 Mar 15 08:52 consent_extraction1.pdf
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 fd fd 397649 Mar 14 20:05 consent_extraction.pdf
>>
>> I observe the same behaviour on my local machine and remote machine.
>>
>> Running "find" finds both files
>>
>> find . -name '*consent_extraction*'
>> ./business/forms/consent_extraction.pdf
>> ./business/forms/consent_extraction1.pdf
>> ./consent_extraction1.pdf
>>
>> Why?
>
> Hi,
>
> Do you have file consent_extraction1.pdf in your working directory? In
> that case, your shell will begin by expending your asterisk and you will
> really look for consent_extraction1.pdf.

It is a strange behaviour :-/
Yes, I had a link "consent_extraction1.pdf" in a working directory and
locate could only locate: consent_extraction1.pdf
It could not find: consent_extraction.pdf

When I removed "consent_extraction.pdf" from my working directory.
run "updatedb" and
"locate *consent_extraction*" found both files
"locate consent_extraction" found both files
"locate consent_extraction*" didn't find any files

The "*" is is messing up the search. I was under impression the "*" will
match any character including extensions.

--
Thelma