Subject: OT: locate (was RE: locate: /usr/var/locatedb: No such file or directory)
From: Michael Hoffman <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 03:45:14 -0500 (Central Daylight Time)

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 <[email-masked]>
The University of Texas at Austin

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