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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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I get it now, thank you for that. |
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- Grant |
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