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bug #11745: RFE: regular expression matching for locate

Submitter:  James Youngman <jay>
Submitted:  Thu 27 Jan 2005 12:59:07 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  locate Severity:  1 - Wish
Item Group:  None Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  jay
Originator Name:  Karl Berry Open/Closed:  Closed
Release:  4.2.14 Fixed Release:  4.2.15
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Thu 27 Jan 2005 11:07:38 PM UTC, comment #1: 

This problem is fixed in the CVS code for findutils.
To resolve your problem, you could either wait for the
next official release of findutils, or check out a copy
of the code from the CVS repository for findutils.

James Youngman <jay>
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Thu 27 Jan 2005 12:59:07 PM UTC, original submission:  

One feature I really, really, really miss in GNU locate (that is in the slocate package) is the ability to search the updatedb database for a regular expression, not a string.

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James adds:
Option -r, --regex.    Match against whole path name.  
Maybe also --regexp in case people misremember the option.
Use POSIX enhanced regexps.
Can anchor against ends of whole path with ^,$ as usual.

Meanwhile, "locate . | grep -e regex" will probably do as a workaround.
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James Youngman <jay>
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Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
2005-01-29 jay Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    Fixed ReleaseNone 4.2.15
2005-01-27 jay StatusNone Fixed

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