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

[Miles Bader]

address@hidden (Wayne Throop) writes:
> The man page says
>            -r <regexp>,  --regexp=<regexp> Search the database using a basic
>                   POSIX regular expression.
>            -i     Does a case insensitive search.
> which didn't seem to me to be prohibitively hard to understand.

No, but those options also not supported by the standard GNU locate program.

What version of locate are you using?  If it's derived from GNU
findutils, the authors ought to send back their changes...

-Miles
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