Re: finding .m files using 'locate'

[Przemek Klosowski]

   command.  Here is a way to get a list of every directory that contains at 
   least one file with the .m extension:

   locate .m | egrep '\.m$' | perl -pe 's#(^.*)/[^/]+.m#$1#g' | sort | uniq

Or, more simply:

   locate '*.m' | xargs -i dirname '{}' | uniq 

Explanation: locate treats *.m differently from simple .m by anchoring
it at the end; xargs runs dirname to strip the filenames (quotes to
protect against shell matching and non-alphanumerics in filenames). 
Sort is not necessary because locate sorts its data.



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