On Wed, 28 May 2003 03:39, you wrote:
> find / -name "rpm.*"
>
> Or, if you have "locate" running, try:
>
> locate 'rpm.*'

No.
locate '*rpm.*'

Maybe better:
locate '*/rpm.*'

This is not a regex, and the dot is a character to be found. With locate, if
you use an asterisk wherever there are characters you don't care about.


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