>> On Fri 12 Sep 2025 at 07:20:39 (-0400), Richard Owlett wrote:
> Is there a similar page demonstrating "plocate"? Thank you.
You should already have the GNU version of "find" installed, but any system
that's close to modern is probably fast enough to use a simple textfile
and one or two
On 9/12/25 7:13 AM, Dan Purgert wrote:
On Sep 12, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 9/12/25 5:36 AM, Roger Price wrote:
On Fri, 12 Sep 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
My current environment is Debian 12, MATE, Caja file manager.
SeaMonkey 2.53.21 is my browser.
While searching my disk for a one PDF
On Sat, 13 Sep 2025, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> locate can handle regular expressions, for example:
>
> $ locate -r '^/home/richard/'
rprice@maria ~ locate -r '^/mnt/home/rprice/'
plocate: no pattern to search for specified
What did I do wrong ? (Package: plocate Version: 1.1.18-1)
Roger
On Sep 13, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 9/13/25 5:48 AM, Roger Price wrote:
> > On Sat, 13 Sep 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >
> > > but BUT *BUT* ;/
> > > locate NOT suitable for *MY* usage, database requires _refreshing_
> >
> > The database is built and refreshed automatically every 24 ho
Lister wrote:
> On 12/9/2025 19:38, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > While searching my disk for a one PDF I discovered I had:
> > 1. multiple copies of that file.
> > 2. copies of similarly named files I was preparing to download.
>
> If you're looking for duplicate (content) files that may have di
On 9/16/25 3:48 AM, Lister wrote:
On 12/9/2025 19:38, Richard Owlett wrote:
While searching my disk for a one PDF I discovered I had:
1. multiple copies of that file.
2. copies of similarly named files I was preparing to download.
If you're looking for duplicate (content) files that may ha
On 12/9/2025 19:38, Richard Owlett wrote:
While searching my disk for a one PDF I discovered I had:
1. multiple copies of that file.
2. copies of similarly named files I was preparing to download.
If you're looking for duplicate (content) files that may have different
filenames, you need f
On 2025-09-13, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>
>> locate can handle regular expressions, for example:
>>
>> $ locate -r '^/home/richard/'
>>
>> lists all sub-directories and files in /home/richard/
>
> but BUT *BUT* ;/
> locate NOT suitable for *MY* usage, database requires _refreshing_
But it's re
On 9/13/25 6:04 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 02:48:28AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
Apparently "find" only crawls the current directory and sub-directories.
No. It crawls each directory you pass it in its arglist:
find . /usr/local /var/lib
would look in the curr
On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 11:22:04 -0400, duh wrote:
> I can be a little slow so the [ find ... -iname ".*" -o ... ] did not work
> for me probably because I do not use 'find' enough to know what to do with
> the trailing ...
It's not trivial. It would help if you stated *exactly* what result
you
On 2025-09-14 21:36, David Christensen wrote:
On 9/14/25 05:31, mick.crane wrote:
On 2025-09-12 22:43, David Christensen wrote:
I use Xfce, which includes the Thunar file manager. Searching the
various menus and context menus, playing with the path edit box,
etc., I am unable to determine ho
On 9/14/25 05:31, mick.crane wrote:
On 2025-09-12 22:43, David Christensen wrote:
I use Xfce, which includes the Thunar file manager. Searching the
various menus and context menus, playing with the path edit box, etc.,
I am unable to determine how to search for a file (?). STFW I see
questi
On 2025-09-12 22:43, David Christensen wrote:
I use Xfce, which includes the Thunar file manager. Searching the
various menus and context menus, playing with the path edit box, etc.,
I am unable to determine how to search for a file (?). STFW I see
questions, complaints, and instructions for
On Saturday, September 13, 2025 09:40:21 AM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, September 13, 2025 05:41:26 AM Richard Owlett wrote:
> > but BUT *BUT* ;/
> > locate NOT suitable for *MY* usage, database requires _refreshing_
>
> Just chiming in from left field:
(Someone might have mentioned
On Saturday, September 13, 2025 05:41:26 AM Richard Owlett wrote:
> but BUT *BUT* ;/
> locate NOT suitable for *MY* usage, database requires _refreshing_
Just chiming in from left field:
When I can, I prefer to use locate vs. find.
The main reason is that *I think* it (that is, updatedb) hits
On 9/13/25 5:05 AM, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:
Apparently "find" only crawls the current directory and
sub-directories. Makes it very nice for for my case. I'm only
interested in files under /home/richard . It would be almost perfect
if it would ignore hidden files
Richard Owlett wrote:
> Apparently "find" only crawls the current directory and
> sub-directories. Makes it very nice for for my case. I'm only
> interested in files under /home/richard . It would be almost perfect
> if it would ignore hidden files and directories ;/
find searches from whichever
On 9/13/25 3:40 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
Hi,
Richard Owlett wrote on 12/09/2025 16:19:
Using that database is suggesting that for *my particular case* "find"
may be more appropriate as I'm only interested in files and
directories under /home/ richard . It would be even better if hidden
f
On 9/13/25 5:48 AM, Roger Price wrote:
On Sat, 13 Sep 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
but BUT *BUT* ;/
locate NOT suitable for *MY* usage, database requires _refreshing_
The database is built and refreshed automatically every 24 hours.
^
On Sat, 13 Sep 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
> but BUT *BUT* ;/
> locate NOT suitable for *MY* usage, database requires _refreshing_
The database is built and refreshed automatically every 24 hours.
What can't you do with locate ? Roger
On 2025-09-13, Roger Price wrote:
> rprice@maria ~ locate -r '^/mnt/home/rprice/'
> plocate: no pattern to search for specified
>
> What did I do wrong ? (Package: plocate Version: 1.1.18-1)
Here on trixie version 1.1.23-1 it works well
On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 02:48:28AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Apparently "find" only crawls the current directory and sub-directories.
No. It crawls each directory you pass it in its arglist:
find . /usr/local /var/lib
would look in the current dir (.), /usr/local and /var/lib
> Makes it
On 2025-09-13, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Apparently "find" only crawls the current directory and sub-directories. Makes
> it very nice for for my case. I'm only interested in files under /home/richard
> . It would be almost perfect if it would ignore hidden files and directories
With plocate you ca
Hi,
Richard Owlett wrote on 12/09/2025 16:19:
Using that database is suggesting that for *my particular case* "find" may be
more appropriate as I'm only interested in files and directories under /home/
richard . It would be even better if hidden files and directories were ignored.
locate can
On 9/12/25 4:43 PM, David Christensen wrote:
On 9/12/25 02:38, Richard Owlett wrote:
My current environment is Debian 12, MATE, Caja file manager.
SeaMonkey 2.53.21 is my browser.
While searching my disk for a one PDF I discovered I had:
1. multiple copies of that file.
2. copies of similar
On 9/12/25 02:38, Richard Owlett wrote:
My current environment is Debian 12, MATE, Caja file manager.
SeaMonkey 2.53.21 is my browser.
While searching my disk for a one PDF I discovered I had:
1. multiple copies of that file.
2. copies of similarly named files I was preparing to download.
C
My current environment is Debian 12, MATE, Caja file manager.
SeaMonkey 2.53.21 is my browser.
While searching my disk for a one PDF I discovered I had:
1. multiple copies of that file.
2. copies of similarly named files I was preparing to download.
Caja's search function does automatically di
On Sep 12, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 9/12/25 5:36 AM, Roger Price wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 Sep 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >
> > > My current environment is Debian 12, MATE, Caja file manager.
> > > SeaMonkey 2.53.21 is my browser.
> > >
> > > While searching my disk for a one PDF I discove
On 9/12/25 5:36 AM, Roger Price wrote:
On Fri, 12 Sep 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
My current environment is Debian 12, MATE, Caja file manager.
SeaMonkey 2.53.21 is my browser.
While searching my disk for a one PDF I discovered I had:
1. multiple copies of that file.
2. copies of similarly
On Fri, 12 Sep 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
> My current environment is Debian 12, MATE, Caja file manager.
> SeaMonkey 2.53.21 is my browser.
>
> While searching my disk for a one PDF I discovered I had:
> 1. multiple copies of that file.
> 2. copies of similarly named files I was preparing to
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