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Re: locate lacks -r regular expression flag in Cygwin
- From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten at thorstenkampe dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 00:52:34 +0200
- Subject: Re: locate lacks -r regular expression flag in Cygwin
- References: <20040616221631.37025.qmail@web52205.mail.yahoo.com>
* Keith Christian (2004-06-17 00:16 +0100)
> I'm running this version of Cygwin:
>
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 den-aet-xpw002 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown
> unknown Cygwin
>
> on Windows XP Pro.
>
> On Linux, I use the "-r" flag to search for regular expressions as shown
> below:
>
> $ locate --version
> GNU locate version 4.1.7
>
> KChristian@den-aet-xpw002 ~
> $ locate -r "test.*xls"
> locate: invalid option -- r
> Usage: locate [-d path | --database=path] [-e | --existing]
> [-i | --ignore-case] [--version] [--help] pattern...
>
> Is there any reason why the version of "locate" in Cygwin doesn't support
> this?
Something wrong with "locate '*test*xls'"?
> Is it a limitation of Microsoft's NTFS file system?
Are you kidding? The whole point about locate is not searching the
file system.
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