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Re: Behaviour of locate with/without glob characters
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James Youngman |
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Re: Behaviour of locate with/without glob characters |
Date: |
Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:35:03 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.3.28i |
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 09:06:04PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote:
(A change to get the specified string to match against basename of the
files in the locate database, not the whole names).
> As a frequent user of locate, i found the ability of being able to search
> for
> all files like eg: libx*.so extremely useful.
>
> However, as discussed some time ago on this list, this is kind of a
> superficial
> fix to make locate a bit more useful. IIRC, a more extensive fix is needed
> for
> locate to do more useful searches using regular expressions. I'm not quite
> up
> to full-on systems utility programming (yet).
I am more interested in the "correct" (i.e. traditional) behaviour.
Any desirable deviation from the traditional bevaiour can be effected
by implementing command-line options and/or aliases.
So, my most pressing interest is - how *should* GNU locate work to be
compatible with other implementations?
James