From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: Gentoo mailing list <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:16:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinK6Ya5FDozx8dt+9nH98dV5cTJ-mQsN2B6NLfF@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimPMGCG5e3ELE6=NSaj0E7cHMz9jxY6d2K8298_@mail.gmail.com>
>> I used to use slocate like this to search the filesystem for a file:
>>
>> foo*.txt
>>
>> but mlocate doesn't seem to accept wildcards. I tried to figure out
>> how to do it with find but failed. Can anyone point me in the right
>> direction?
>>
>> - Grant
>>
>>
>
> Try locate "*/foo*.txt". mlocate seems to match based on the full path name.
>
> Also, to quote the manpage:
>
> If any PATTERN contains no globbing characters, locate behaves as if
> the pattern were *PATTERN*.
I get it now, thank you for that.
- Grant
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-26 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-26 2:26 [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard Grant
2011-02-26 3:19 ` Amankwah
2011-02-26 4:33 ` Mike Gilbert
2011-02-26 10:24 ` Roman Zilka
2011-02-26 17:33 ` Grant
2011-02-26 18:26 ` luis jure
2011-02-26 21:45 ` Roman Zilka
2011-02-27 3:46 ` Stroller
[not found] ` <73cb39da-826b-4754-91f4-40e9656fe961@ZABRYSVISEXHUB2.af.didata.local>
2011-02-27 6:52 ` Stroller
2011-02-27 11:29 ` Willie Wong
2011-02-27 19:32 ` Grant
2011-02-26 3:23 ` Mike Gilbert
2011-02-26 17:16 ` Grant [this message]
2011-03-01 0:58 ` Grant
2011-03-01 2:11 ` Alex Schuster
2011-03-01 17:56 ` Grant
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