[ALUG] Re: Re: 'locate' isn't always helpful, how to do better?

Eur Ing Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Thu Feb 22 11:47:02 GMT 2007


On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 11:44:06AM +0000, Paul wrote:
> 
> Hi Chris
> 
> On Thursday 22 February 2007 11:28, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
> > > My first reaction was use `find`, but....
> 
> > Not on my locate!  There's no options anything like -type or
> > -maxdepth.
> 
> Um..err... (hangs head) I mistakenly looked at the man page for find, no 
> wonder it looked familiar.... Please disregard earlier message and put it 
> down to one of those Homer moments.
> 
:-)  :-)  :-)

That's cheered me up no end!

-- 
Chris Green



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