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>>> I used to use slocate like this to search the filesystem for a file: |
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>>> |
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>>> foo*.txt |
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>>> |
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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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>>> |
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>>> - Grant |
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>>> |
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>>> |
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>> |
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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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>> |
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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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> |
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> I get it now, thank you for that. |
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> |
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> - Grant |
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I'm having trouble with this again. I get: |
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# ls -l /var/cache/revdep-rebuild |
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total 424 |
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-rwx------ 1 root portage 699 Feb 28 16:52 0_env.rr |
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-rwx------ 1 root portage 323445 Feb 28 16:38 1_files.rr |
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-rwx------ 1 root portage 34387 Feb 28 16:38 2_ldpath.rr |
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-rwx------ 1 root portage 57 Feb 28 16:40 3_broken.rr |
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-rwx------ 1 root portage 34641 Feb 28 16:39 3_errors.rr |
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-rwx------ 1 root portage 19 Feb 28 16:40 4_ebuilds.rr |
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-rwx------ 1 root portage 79 Feb 28 16:40 4_owners.rr |
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-rwx------ 1 root portage 23 Feb 28 16:40 4_pkgs.rr |
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-rwx------ 1 root portage 23 Feb 28 16:40 4_raw.rr |
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-rwx------ 1 root portage 25 Feb 28 16:40 5_order.rr |
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-rwx------ 1 root portage 2 Feb 28 16:52 6_status.rr |
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# locate *.rr |
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# |
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- Grant |
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