Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 03:45:14 -0500 (Central Daylight Time) From: Michael Hoffman Subject: OT: locate (was RE: locate: /usr/var/locatedb: No such file or directory) In-reply-to: <714864C61F42474DA303505B01544D1501465136@hermes.scopus.net> X-X-Sender: grouse@mail.utexas.edu To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: alexv@scopus.net Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Alex Vinokur wrote: > However how do I have the locate utility in order to know where 'ls' is > ? > [...] > $locate ls > generates 1389 lines > > $locate *ls > generete 71 lines > > But I need to know about the 'ls' pattern exactly. Use: locate */ls But this is really off-topic for this list, as it is a general UNIX question and doesn't have anything to do with Cygwin. -- Michael Hoffman The University of Texas at Austin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/