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

[Dan Jacobson]

Hi everybody, it's me the original poster.  Well, as I use locate
interactively and never in scripts, I will just cautiously experiment
with its globbing next time i use it.  I will remember that it has
near shell like globbing ... that is about all I can expect to
remember from this discussion reasonably.
Wayne> The man page says

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

Yes I remember that from back on Mandrake, but now I use "woody".

It would be neat to have switches to alter matching:
--fgrep style [i.e. plain strings] etc.  good for us forgetful users.
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