locate(1)

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locate(1)                                 locate(1)



NAME
       locate - find files by name


SYNOPSIS
       locate [OPTION]... PATTERN...


DESCRIPTION
       locate  reads  one or more databases prepared by updatedb(8) and writes
       file names matching at least one of the PATTERNs     to  standard  output,
       one per line.

       If  --regex is not specified, PATTERNs can contain globbing characters.
       If any PATTERN contains no globbing characters, locate  behaves    as  if
       the pattern were *PATTERN*.

       By default, locate does not check whether files found in database still
       exist.  locate can never report files created  after  the  most    recent
       update of the relevant database.


EXIT STATUS
       locate  exits  with  status  0  if any match was found or if locate was
       invoked with one of the --limit 0, --help,  --statistics     or  --version
       options.      If  no  match     was  found  or a fatal error was encountered,
       locate exits with status 1.

       Errors encountered while reading a database are not fatal, search  con-
       tinues in other specified databases, if any.


OPTIONS
       -b, --basename
          Match  only  the base name against the specified patterns.  This
          is the opposite of --wholename.


       -c, --count
          Instead of writing file names on standard output, write the num-
          ber of matching entries only.


       -d, --database DBPATH
          Replace  the  default database with DBPATH.  DBPATH is a :-sepa-
          rated list of database file names.  If more than one  --database
          option  is  specified,  the resulting path is a concatenation of
          the separate paths.

          An empty database file name is replaced by the default database.
          A     database file name - refers to the standard input.  Note that
          a database can be read from the standard input only once.


       -e, --existing
          Print only entries that refer to    files  existing     at  the  time
          locate is run.


       -L, --follow
          When  checking  whether files exist (if the --existing option is
          specified), follow trailing symbolic links.  This causes    broken
          symbolic links to be omitted from the output.

          This  is    the  default  behavior.     The opposite can be specified
          using --nofollow.


       -h, --help
          Write a summary of the available options to standard output  and
          exit successfully.


       -i, --ignore-case
          Ignore case distinctions when matching patterns.


       -l, --limit, -n LIMIT
          Exit  successfully  after finding LIMIT entries.    If the --count
          option is specified, the resulting  count     is  also  limited  to
          LIMIT.


       -m, --mmap
          Ignored, for compatibility with BSD and GNU locate.


       -P, --nofollow, -H
          When  checking  whether files exist (if the --existing option is
          specified), do not follow trailing symbolic links.  This    causes
          broken symbolic links to be reported like other files.

          This is the opposite of --follow.


       -0, --null
          Separate    the  entries  on  output using the ASCII NUL character
          instead of writing each entry on a separate line.      This    option
          is  designed  for interoperability with the --null option of GNU
          xargs(1).


       -S, --statistics
          Write statistics about each read    database  to  standard    output
          instead of searching for files and exit successfully.


       -q, --quiet
          Write  no     messages  about  errors encountered while reading and
          processing databases.


       -r, --regexp REGEXP
          Search for a basic regexp REGEXP.     No PATTERNs  are  allowed  if
          this  option  is used, but this option can be specified multiple
          times.


       --regex
          Interpret all PATTERNs as extended regexps.


       -s, --stdio
          Ignored, for compatibility with BSD and GNU locate.


       -V, --version
          Write information about the version and  license    of  locate  on
          standard output and exit successfully.


       -w, --wholename
          Match only the whole path name against the specified patterns.

          This  is    the  default  behavior.     The opposite can be specified
          using --basename.


EXAMPLES
       To search for a file named exactly NAME (not *NAME*), use
          locate -b ’\NAME’
       Because \ is a globbing character, this disables the implicit  replace-
       ment of NAME by *NAME*.


FILES
       /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db
          The database searched by default.


ENVIRONMENT
       LOCATE_PATH
          Path  to    additional databases, added after the default database
          or the databases specified using the --database option.


NOTES
       The order in which the requested databases are  processed  is  unspeci-
       fied,  which  allows  locate  to reorder the database path for security
       reasons.

       locate attempts to be compatible to slocate (without the     options  used
       for  creating  databases)  and  GNU locate, in that order.  This is the
       reason for the impractical default --follow option and for the  confus-
       ing set of --regex and --regexp options.

       The  short  spelling  of     the  -r option is incompatible to GNU locate,
       where it corresponds to the --regex option.  Use the long option     names
       to avoid confusion.

       The  LOCATE_PATH     environment variable replaces the default database in
       BSD and GNU locate, but it is added to other databases in  this    imple-
       mentation and slocate.


AUTHOR
       Miloslav Trmac <mitr@redhat.com>


SEE ALSO
       updatedb(8)



mlocate                   Jul 2005                 locate(1)

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