Re: locate(1) man page hard to understand, please rewrite

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> writes:
> Anyway, I wanted to search for any directories called tmp, so I did
> $ locate /tmp$ #no good
> $ locate /tmp|grep /tmp$ #best I can do I suppose
> Anyway, I think the man page is trying to say that it doesn't have any
> wildcard matching ability at all?

Could you be a bit more specific how it doesn't work?  Does `locate
/tmp' give you no output?  AFAIK `locate /tmp' should give you a list
of all entries that contain /tmp in their name.  I.e. /tmp /blah/tmp.c
etc.  locate doesn't distinguish between files and directories to my
knowledge.

Cheers,
-- 
Alfred M. Szmidt