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Subject: RE: locate: /usr/var/locatedb: No such file or directory
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:45:57 +0200
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael A Chase [mailto:mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT 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 AT scopus DOT 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.


  ====================
  Alex Vinokur
    http://up.to/alexvn
    http://go.to/alexv_math
    mailto:alexvn AT bigfoot DOT com
    mailto:alexvn AT go DOT to
  ====================


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