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On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I used to use slocate like this to search the filesystem for a file: |
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> foo*.txt |
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> but mlocate doesn't seem to accept wildcards. I tried to figure out |
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> how to do it with find but failed. Can anyone point me in the right |
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> direction? |
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> - Grant |
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Try locate "*/foo*.txt". mlocate seems to match based on the full path name. |
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Also, to quote the manpage: |
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If any PATTERN contains no globbing characters, locate behaves as if |
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the pattern were *PATTERN*. |
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