[bugs #11745] RFE: regular expression matching for locate

[James Youngman]

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                 Summary: RFE: regular expression matching for locate
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: jay
            Submitted on: Thu 01/27/2005 at 12:59
                Category: locate
                Severity: 1 - None
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: jay
         Originator Name: Karl Berry
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: 4.2.14
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

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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