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LOCATE(1)                    BSD Reference Manual                    LOCATE(1)

NNAAMMEE
     llooccaattee - find files

SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS
     _l_o_c_a_t_e pattern

DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN
     LLooccaattee searches a database for all pathnames which match the specified
     _p_a_t_t_e_r_n. The database is recomputed periodically, and contains the path-
     names of all files which are publicly accessible.

     Shell globbing and quoting characters (``*'', ``?'', ``\'', ``['' and
     ``]'') may be used in _p_a_t_t_e_r_n, although they will have to be escaped from
     the shell.  Preceding any character with a backslash (``\'') eliminates
     any special meaning which it may have.  The matching differs in that no
     characters must be matched explicitly, including slashes (``/'').

     As a special case, a pattern containing no globbing characters (``foo'')
     is matched as though it were ``*foo*''.

FFIILLEESS
     /var/db/locate.database

SSEEEE AALLSSOO
     find(1),  fnmatch(3)

     Woods, James A., "Finding Files Fast", _;_l_o_g_i_n, 8:1, pp. 8-10, 1983.

HHIISSTTOORRYY
     The llooccaattee command appears in 4.4BSD.

4.4BSD                           June 6, 1993                                1