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From: "Rob B" <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au>
To: "Lee Gold" <goldtech@worldpost.com>,
	"Adam Weinberger" <adam@vectors.cx>
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Subject: Re: unix locate cmd
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 22:07:41 +1000
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Gold" <goldtech@worldpost.com>
To: "Adam Weinberger" <adam@vectors.cx>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: unix locate cmd


>
>
> > >> (10.01.2002 @ 0418 PST): Lee Gold said, in 0.5K: <<
> > > I'm trying to use the  locate  cmd to find all
> > > instances of .xinitrc in my system. I did,....
> > >
> ..snip..
> >
> > when you run the program, you're leaving out the 'n' in locate.updatedb,
> > right?
>
> that's an email typo.
>
> ...snip...
>
> > so you can't locate anything at all? so, for example, "locate termcap"
> > gives no output? what's the filesize of your /var/db/locate.database?
>
> the db is about 420kb
> sorry, it works perfectly $locate temp or $locate X11
> give big lists. I think I'm getting stuck on the dot beginning
> the string  .xinitrc - I must not be handling that leading "."
> correctly w/locate. The output of $locate .xinitrc  is nothing
> just a new prompt. What would be the reason?

Try using locate ".xinitrc"  Wildcards and regexps have to be enclosed in
quotes for locate to work.

cheers,
Rob


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