Actually, none of those additional characters are necessary.
Simply issuing this command:
locate rpm
will find all files and directories that have those three characters in that
order in their name. Depending on which version of locate/slocate you're
running, the search will even be case insensitive. The newer versions that
I've been running are not that way, case does matter. If, as you suggested,
you want to limit things a bit, then
locate /rpm
will find just those file or directory names are start with those three
characters in that order. A lot of times, I'll do "locate bin/foo" or
something similar, if I'm fairly sure the file is in one of the program
directories.
Mark Post
-----Original Message-----
From: John Summerfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 6:40 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Man formatting problem
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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