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On Monday 12 October 2009 11:11:06 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:23:11 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > > I knew how to do it but I thought it would return a lot of hits from |
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> > > anything containing the letter "q". Later on when I had a little bit |
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> > > of time to sit here, I tried it. It only returned the one result. |
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> > > Still sort of surprised about that. I actually just ran equery b q . |
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> > > Neato ! It has a microscope and read my mind. o_O |
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> > which doesn't accept regular expressions or wild-cards, it wants a |
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> > literal value. The man page says it will return the path used if the |
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> > exact argument is entered on the command line. So you can only get one |
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> > answer |
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> Interesting. I tried it just out of interest and I got two: |
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> $ equery b q |
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> [ Searching for file(s) q in *... ] |
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> app-portage/portage-utils-0.1.29 (/usr/bin/q) |
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> sys-libs/ncurses-5.6-r2 (/usr/share/terminfo/q) |
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There's always someone willing to go look and find the exceptions :-) |
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So your box just happens to have *two* files named "q" "-) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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