Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 21:41:51 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: locate(1) manpage Message-ID: <20000822214151.W20036@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20000822202520.E254@parish> References: <20000820130425.B254@parish> <20000820212720.C84036@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <20000822202520.E254@parish>
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Mark Ovens wrote:
> I understand what you mean, but I think it is more complicated than
> that. Try
>
> # locate "/include/"
> # locate "*include/"
> # locate "/include*"
This is explained elsewhere in the manpage. (This is a polite way of saying
"RTFM" ;-)
As a special case, a pattern containing no globbing characters (``foo'')
is matched as though it were ``*foo*''.
So "locate /include/" is the same as "locate */include/*" which matches
"/usr/include/ctype.h", but "/include*" is just treated as "/include*",
which "/usr/include/ctype.h" doesn't match.
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