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RE: locate: /usr/var/locatedb: No such file or directory
- From: "Alex Vinokur" <alexv at scopus dot net>
- To: "Michael A Chase" <mchase at ix dot netcom dot com>,"Cygwin Mailing List" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:45:57 +0200
- Subject: RE: locate: /usr/var/locatedb: No such file or directory
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael A Chase [mailto:mchase@ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 9:07 AM
> To: Alex Vinokur; Cygwin Mailing List
> Subject: Re: locate: /usr/var/locatedb: No such file or directory
>
>
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:03:14 +0200 Alex Vinokur
> <alexv@scopus.net> wrote:
>
> > $ locale ls
> > locate: /usr/var/locatedb: No such file or directory
> >
> > What do I have to do in order to use locate ?
>
> man locate
> man updatedb
Thanks.
After
% updatedb
it works.
However how do I have the locate utility in order to know where 'ls' is
?
According man locate (1)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
------
If a pattern is a plain string -- it contains no metachar-
acters -- locate displays all file names in the database
that contain that string anywhere. If a pattern does con-
tain metacharacters, locate only displays file names that
match the pattern exactly. As a result, patterns that
contain metacharacters should usually begin with a `*',
and will most often end with one as well. The exceptions
are patterns that are intended to explicitly match the
beginning or end of a file name.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----
$locate ls
generates 1389 lines
$locate *ls
generete 71 lines
But I need to know about the 'ls' pattern exactly.
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