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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: locate lacks -r regular expression flag in Cygwin Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 00:52:34 +0200 Lines: 29 Message-ID: <2d3zmpqwtsk1$.dlg@thorstenkampe.de> References: <20040616221631.37025.qmail@web52205.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: isi-dial-142-232.isionline-dialin.de User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.12.1de * Keith Christian (2004-06-17 00:16 +0100) > I'm running this version of Cygwin: > > CYGWIN_NT-5.1 den-aet-xpw002 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown > unknown Cygwin > > on Windows XP Pro. > > On Linux, I use the "-r" flag to search for regular expressions as shown > below: > > $ locate --version > GNU locate version 4.1.7 > > KChristian@den-aet-xpw002 ~ > $ locate -r "test.*xls" > locate: invalid option -- r > Usage: locate [-d path | --database=path] [-e | --existing] > [-i | --ignore-case] [--version] [--help] pattern... > > Is there any reason why the version of "locate" in Cygwin doesn't support > this? Something wrong with "locate '*test*xls'"? > Is it a limitation of Microsoft's NTFS file system? Are you kidding? The whole point about locate is not searching the file system. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/