locate is the main command in the mlocate package. It is used to search for files, by default by a substring of their full path, based on a database populated by the updatedb command.
Questions tagged [locate]
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Find all files with name containing string
I have been searching for a command that will return files from the current directory which contain a string in the filename. I have seen locate and find commands that can find files beginning with something first_word* or ending with something…
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How can I find a file/directory that could be anywhere on linux command line?
Ideally, I would be able to use a program like
find [file or directory name]
to report the paths with matching filenames/directories. Unfortunately this seems to only check the current directory, not the entire folder.
I've also tried locate and…
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Centos - "locate" command doesn't work
We have Centos 7.
Trying to use the 'locate' command yields nothing, even if the searched file[s] actually exist.
No error is printed.
Also executed 'sudo updatedb' to update the 'locate' indexes.
Any ideas?
Thank you
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Where is vcbuild in VS2010?
I've upgraded to VS2010 and am looking for the vbuild executable. For VS2008, it was under:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\vcpackages\vcbuild.exe
Where is it for VS2010? It's not under:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft…
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glib.h: No such file or directory
I tried installing gtk and glib using
sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev
and
sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev
but locate glib.h does not return any path for glib
results of locate glib.h are
$ locate…
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How can I `find` files matching pattern within a directory matching another pattern from the command line?
Say I want to find all files in /Path named file_name*. Easy:
$ find /Path -name "file_name*"
/Path/foo1/file_name1.txt
/Path/foo2/file_name2.txt
/Path/bar3/file_name3.txt
/Path/bar4/file_name4.txt
What if I only want to search subdirectories like…
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Use command grep and locate
How I can make the grep command locate certain words in the files specified by the routes found by the locate command?
locate my.cnf | grep user
(I want that grep command search the word "user" on the files found for locate command)
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How come the unix locate command still shows files/folders that aren't there any more?
I recently moved my whole local web development area over to using MacPorts stuff, rather than using MAMP on my Mac. I've been getting into Python/Django and didn't really need MAMP any more.
Thing is, I have uninstalled MAMP from the Applications…
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Can't locate File/Glob.pm in @INC (@INC contains: D:/tools/lib .) at directory.pl line 2
I get this error when running my perl code
Can't locate File/Glob.pm in @INC (@INC contains: D:/tools/lib .) at directory.pl line 2.
line 2: @files=<*>;
When i run the command, I get,
Y:\perl\perl>perldoc -l…
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When and how can I locate an element by tag name using Selenium WebDriver? Please explain with an example
I have used most of the element locators while testing with Selenium, but very low frequently used the 'TagName' locator. Please give an example.
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Locate command can't find anything inside Documents folder on mac
As it says in the description. I first check our database is up to date
mh547:bin crashandburn4$ sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
Password: #password entered and function executed without errors
I then try and search for something inside my…
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String to Date Format as DD/MM/YYY in Python - Portuguese
I would like to convert the string "23/02/2018" to a date format as 23-fev-2018.
Most importanly is that, the month must be in portuguese language, refering to fevereiro.
My issue is that usually the datetime.date prints like (YYYY,MM,DD):
import…
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bash locate command with pattern
I try to find a file with locate command.
It behaves itself some strange with patterns, at least not like ls or find commands.
I do the following:
sh@sh:~$ locate rhythmdb
/home/sh/.local/share/rhythmbox/rhythmdb.xml
sh@sh:~$ locate…
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How can I force grep to only return files and ignore directories?
I'm trying to use grep to automatically locate the bibtex program in the user's bin folder.
The problem is, it frequently returns a directory with the name bibtex, which means that the script fails to automatically run the command.
How can I force…
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using locate function on calculated field in delphi
How can we use locate function or a same operation function using a calculated field in delphi Tadotable?
something like this
SampleAdotable.locate('samplefield',text,[lopartialkey]);
where samplefield is a calculated field in SampleAdotable.In…
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