On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:52:53 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I think, by default "locate" wants to enclose the search location > between two "*.....*" stars. So if you will not put anything locate > will put them for you. If you put only one star it will not find > anything.
No need to think or suppose, the man page explains it clearly: 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*. -- Neil Bothwick And on the seventh day God said :wq and then make
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