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Date:      Tue, 5 Mar 1996 21:45:32 +0100
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-usrbin@freefall.freebsd.org, davidg@freefall.freebsd.org, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  src/usr.bin/locate/locate updatedb.csh updatedb.sh
Message-ID:  <199603052045.VAA00603@campa.panke.de>
In-Reply-To: <199603051337.AAA06109@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
References:  <199603051337.AAA06109@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>gnu locate supports multiple databases (specified in the environment
>variable LOCATE_PATH IIRC).  This allows the cdrom databases to be
>kept separately and merged when locate is run.

I changed my FreeBSD locate to support multiple databases (option or
environment). I fixed also broken locate.bigram and locate.code. It
works well but I don't think my code style is ready for a commit.

Wolfram



New options

	   -S	  Print some statistic about database and exit.

	   -c	  Suppress	normal	output; instead print a count of
		       matching file names.

	   -d database
		       Search in database instead the default file name
		       database.

		       Multiple option -d allowed and use different databases
		       Or in other words, the last -d don't overwrite the pre-
		       vious -d

		       database may be a colon-separated list of databases. A
		       single colon is a reference to the default database.

		       $ locate -d ~/lib/mydb: foo

		       search first in ~/lib/mydb and then in
		       /var/db/locate.database.

		       Read from standard input if file name - is given.  For
		       example, you can compress your database and use:

		       $ zcat database.gz | locate -d - pattern

		       This maybe useful on machines with fast CPU and few RAM
		       and slow I/O. Note: you can only use  *one* pattern for
		       stdin.

	   -i	  Ignore  case  distinctions  in both the pattern and the
		       database.

	   -l number   Limit output to number of file names and exit.

	   -m	  use mmap(2) instead stdio library, default. In most
		       cases faster.

	   -s	  use stdio library instead mmap(2).

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