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BSD 4.4
NAME
locate
- find files
SYNOPSIS
pattern
DESCRIPTION
searches a database for all pathnames which match the specified
pattern
The database is recomputed periodically, and contains the pathnames
of all files which are publicly accessible.
Shell globbing and quoting characters (``*'', ``?'', ``\'', ``[''
and ``]'')
may be used in
pattern
although they will have to be escaped from the shell.
Preceding any character with a backslash (``\'') eliminates any special
meaning which it may have.
The matching differs in that no characters must be matched explicitly,
including slashes (``/'').
As a special case, a pattern containing no globbing characters (``foo'')
is matched as though it were ``*foo*''.
FILES
- /var/db/locate.database
-
Database
- /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
-
Script to update database.
SEE ALSO
find(1),
fnmatch(3),
weekly.conf5
-
Woods, James A.
1983
"Finding Files Fast"
";login"
8:1
pp. 8-10
HISTORY
The
command appears in
BSD 4.4
Index
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