Am 07.11.23 um 17:32 schrieb gene heskett: > Greetings all; > I dunno if I've forgot how to use it, or it broken by the same bug that > killing me with the lagging access to my home raid10. > > Fact: there are probably over 100 files in my /home/gene directory and > all its subs with assorted names ending in ".scad", made by OpenSCAD > Fact: I just ran "sudo updatedb" and generated a new date just now, > /var/cache/locate/locatedb.n > so that s/b uptodate. > Al of those files should be spit out by: > "locate *.scad" issued from an xfce terminal > but I get: > gene@coyote:~$ locate *.scad
Since you're not escaping the '*' you (i. e. the shell) implicitly did: gene@coyote:~$ locate vac_ctrl_box.scad xhome_cable.scad instead, try gene@coyote:~$ locate .scad > /home/gene/vac_ctrl_box.scad > /home/gene/xhome_cable.scad > > Acc an ls -R|wc -l there are > 433179 > files in my /home/gene directory > > so locate isn't working as I think it should. > try find but it finds the whole my whole local net: No, it searches starting at ".scad" and ".". The former doesn't exist and the latter is your home directory (because that is the $CWD when you issued the command) which find recursively searches for everything, since you didn't specify what to search for. > gene@coyote:~$ find .scad . |wc -l > find: ‘.scad’: No such file or directory > 1176532 >> > What am I doing wrong? Try gene@coyote:~$ find . -name '*.scad' -- Regards mks
