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- LOCATE(1L) MISC. REFERENCE MANUAL PAGES LOCATE(1L)
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- NAME
- locate - list files in databases that match a pattern
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- SYNOPSIS
- locate [-d path] [--database=path] pattern...
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- DESCRIPTION
- This manual page documents the GNU version of locate. For
- each given pattern, locate searches one or more databases of
- file pathnames and displays the pathnames that contain the
- pattern. Patterns can contain shell-style metacharacters:
- `*', `?', and `[]'. The metacharacters do not treat `/' or
- `.' specially. Patterns that contain metacharacters should
- be quoted to protect them from expansion by the shell.
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- If a pattern is a plain string - it contains no metacharac-
- ters - locate displays all pathnames in the database that
- contain that string anywhere. If a pattern does contain
- metacharacters, it only displays pathnames that match the
- pattern exactly. As a result, patterns that contain meta-
- characters should usually begin with a `*', and will most
- often end with one as well. The exceptions are patterns
- that are intended to explicitly match the beginning or end
- of a pathname.
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- The filename databases contain lists of the files that were
- on the system whenever the database was last updated. The
- pathname of the default database, the frequency with which
- it is updated, and the directories for which it contains
- entries are configurable by the system administrator.
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- locate supports having multiple filename databases; for
- example, there could be one on each filesystem. You can
- tell locate to use alternate filename databases instead of
- the default one by giving a colon-separated list of database
- pathnames as either an argument to the -_d or --_d_a_t_a_b_a_s_e
- options or as the value of the environment variable
- LOCATE_PATH. The option overrides the environment variable
- if both are used.
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