Re: using locate properly

2002-10-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 03:15:19PM +0200, Robert Wilhelm Land wrote: ... > rland@MINI:~$ locate [Mm]uttrc > ... no reaction. > > Rereading the info gave me: ...snipped where you found out about metachars and quoting > .so I tried: > > rland@MINI:~$ locate '[Mm]uttrc' > rland@MINI:~$ locate

Re: using locate properly

2002-10-08 Thread Jeff
Claudio Bley, 2002-Oct-08 16:25 +0200: > On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 15:15, Robert Wilhelm Land wrote: > > This could be more a question of bash fundamentals: > > > > By trying to find Muttrc on my HDD I used the locate > > program. > > > > This was the command I ueed: > > > > rland@MINI:~$ locate [M

Re: using locate properly

2002-10-08 Thread Claudio Bley
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 15:15, Robert Wilhelm Land wrote: > This could be more a question of bash fundamentals: > > By trying to find Muttrc on my HDD I used the locate > program. > > This was the command I ueed: > > rland@MINI:~$ locate [Mm]uttrc > ... no reaction. > .so I tried: > > rla

using locate properly

2002-10-08 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
This could be more a question of bash fundamentals: By trying to find Muttrc on my HDD I used the locate program. This was the command I ueed: rland@MINI:~$ locate [Mm]uttrc ... no reaction. Rereading the info gave me: " Patterns can contain shell-style metacharacters:       &pi0;*', &pi0;?',