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

[Neil Bothwick]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:52:53 -0600, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:

> I think, by default "locate" wants to enclose the search location
> between two "*.....*" stars.  So if you will not put anything locate
> will put them for you.  If you put  only one star it will not find
> anything.

No need to think or suppose, the man page explains it clearly:

If --regex  is not specified, PATTERNs can contain globbing characters.
If any PATTERN  contains no globbing characters, locate  behaves as if
the pattern were *PATTERN*.


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Neil Bothwick

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