On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I used to use slocate like this to search the filesystem for a file: > > foo*.txt > > but mlocate doesn't seem to accept wildcards. I tried to figure out > how to do it with find but failed. Can anyone point me in the right > direction? > > - Grant > >
Try locate "*/foo*.txt". mlocate seems to match based on the full path name. Also, to quote the manpage: If any PATTERN contains no globbing characters, locate behaves as if the pattern were *PATTERN*.
