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LOCATE(1L) LOCATE(1L)
NNAAMMEE
locate - list files in databases that match a pattern
SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS
llooccaattee [-d path] [--database=path] [--version] [--help]
pattern...
DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN
This manual page documents the GNU version of llooccaattee. For
each given pattern, llooccaattee searches one or more databases
of file names and displays the file names that contain the
pattern. Patterns can contain shell-style metacharacters:
`*', `?', and `[]'. The metacharacters do not treat `/'
or `.' specially. Therefore, a pattern `foo*bar' can
match a file name that contains `foo3/bar', and a pattern
`*duck*' can match a file name that contains
`lake/.ducky'. Patterns that contain metacharacters
should be quoted to protect them from expansion by the
shell.
If a pattern is a plain string -- it contains no metachar-
acters -- llooccaattee displays all file names in the database
that contain that string anywhere. If a pattern does con-
tain metacharacters, llooccaattee only displays file names that
match the pattern exactly. As a result, patterns that
contain metacharacters 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 file name.
The file name databases contain lists of files that were
on the system when the databases were last updated. The
system administrator can choose the file name of the
default database, the frequency with which the databases
are updated, and the directories for which they contain
entries; see uuppddaatteeddbb(1L).
OOPPTTIIOONNSS
_-_d _p_a_t_h_, _-_-_d_a_t_a_b_a_s_e_=_p_a_t_h
Instead of searching the default file name
database, search the file name databases in _p_a_t_h,
which is a colon-separated list of database file
names. You can also use the environment variable
LLOOCCAATTEE__PPAATTHH to set the list of database files to
search. The option overrides the environment vari-
able if both are used.
The file name database format changed starting with GNU
ffiinndd and llooccaattee version 4.0 to allow machines with diffent
byte orderings to share the databases. This version of
llooccaattee can automatically recognize and read databases pro-
duced for older versions of GNU llooccaattee or Unix versions of
llooccaattee or ffiinndd.
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LOCATE(1L) LOCATE(1L)
_-_-_h_e_l_p Print a summary of the options to llooccaattee and exit.
_-_-_v_e_r_s_i_o_n
Print the version number of llooccaattee and exit.
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LLOOCCAATTEE__PPAATTHH
Colon-separated list of databases to search.
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ffiinndd(1L), llooccaatteeddbb(5L), uuppddaatteeddbb(1L), xxaarrggss(1L) FFiinnddiinngg
FFiilleess (on-line in Info, or printed)
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