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

[Paul D. Smith]

%% address@hidden (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes:

  ams> $ locate /tmp
  ams> /home/ams/src/hurd/tmpfs
  ams> /home/ams/src/hurd/tmpfs/ChangeLog
  ams> /home/ams/src/hurd/tmpfs/CVS
  ams> /home/ams/src/hurd/tmpfs/CVS/Entries
  ams> /home/ams/src/hurd/tmpfs/CVS/Repository
  ams> /home/ams/src/hurd/tmpfs/CVS/Root

  ams> This looks like a bug to me.

No, this is correct.  Locate matches substrings by default.  This is
different from how other globbing instances work, but it how the tool is
intended to work.

I just forgot about that.

  ams> After looking a bit closer the following would do what "locate /tmp"
  ams> is supposed to do (IHMO):

  ams> $ locate */tmp
  ams> /home/ams/share/doc/tmp

  ams> But it doesn't match /tmp for some odd reason.  `*' should match
  ams> any "zero or more characters"

Offhand this does seem incorrect, but I'd have to check the man page to
be sure.

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