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

[Wayne Throop]

:: Dan Jacobson <address@hidden>
:: $ 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?

What's wrong with, eg

    sh-2.04$ locate -r '/tmp$'
    /home/throopw/tmp
    /home/throopw/.gimp/tmp
    /home/throopw/.kde/share/apps/kfmexec/tmp
    /home/throopw/.ee/minis/tmp
    [.. etc, etc ..]

The man page says

           -r <regexp>
                  --regexp=<regexp> Search the database using a basic
                  POSIX regular expression.

and

           -i     Does a case insensitive search.

which didn't seem to me to be prohibitively hard to understand.


Wayne Throop   address@hidden   http://sheol.org/throopw