26 Dec
2004
26 Dec
'04
12:23 p.m.
I tend always to use find when looking for files but recently discovered 'locate'.
However the 'locate' way of doing things strikes me a not very useful as it searches for the string you give it in every part of the filename which, in general, gives far too many hits.
E.g. if I do "locate organ" in the hope of finding some file containing organ music I get thousands of hits with 'Korganizer' etc. in. I also tried "locate -r '^organ" but that found nothing (which is also wrong).
"find / -name 'organ*'" does what I want (if slowly), is there any way of doing the same search with locate?
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Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)
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