[gentoo-user] Re: locate can not find a file

2017-03-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-03-15, Kai Krakow wrote: > Am Wed, 15 Mar 2017 21:41:41 + (UTC) > schrieb Grant Edwards : > >> On 2017-03-15, Kai Krakow wrote: >> >> > Especially people coming from Windows or DOS have problems with this >> >

[gentoo-user] Re: locate can not find a file

2017-03-15 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:52:53 -0600 schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: > On 03/15/2017 03:36 PM, Kai Krakow wrote: > > Am Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:31:58 +0100 > > schrieb Alarig Le Lay : > > > >> On mer. 15 mars 09:10:26 2017, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > [...] > >> > >>

[gentoo-user] Re: locate can not find a file

2017-03-15 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 15 Mar 2017 21:41:41 + (UTC) schrieb Grant Edwards : > On 2017-03-15, Kai Krakow wrote: > > > Especially people coming from Windows or DOS have problems with this > > feature. In the MS world, globbing expansion is done by the command

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: locate can not find a file

2017-03-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:52:53 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I think, by default "locate" wants to enclose the search location > between two "*.*" stars. So if you will not put anything locate > will put them for you. If you put only one star it will not find > anything. No need to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: locate can not find a file

2017-03-15 Thread thelma
On 03/15/2017 03:36 PM, Kai Krakow wrote: > Am Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:31:58 +0100 > schrieb Alarig Le Lay : > >> On mer. 15 mars 09:10:26 2017, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >>> Yes, I run as root: updatedb >>> But when run: >>> locate consent_extraction* >>> >>> It only list

[gentoo-user] Re: locate can not find a file

2017-03-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-03-15, Kai Krakow wrote: > Especially people coming from Windows or DOS have problems with this > feature. In the MS world, globbing expansion is done by the command > itself: it will see the * literally in the parameters. Well, technically, that depends on what

[gentoo-user] Re: locate can not find a file

2017-03-15 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:31:58 +0100 schrieb Alarig Le Lay : > On mer. 15 mars 09:10:26 2017, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > Yes, I run as root: updatedb > > But when run: > > locate consent_extraction* > > > > It only list one file: > > /home/fd/consent_extraction1.pdf