how to find folders only with locate command

ddc · 07-14-2014, 05:24 AM

Hi,

Tried with "locate -r "/home/username/.*/foldera$" -e -l 5" to find the foldera. It's failed. What am I missing here?

Working fine with "locate -r "/foldera$" -e -l 5". But, I want to find folder under home directory only.

How to list folderA also if exists in home directory. needs to consider case insensitive.

How to find only folders with locate command.

Thanks,
ddc

smallpond · 07-14-2014, 08:25 AM

Why use locate?

Code:

find /home/username -type d
find /home/username -type d -iname foldera

ddc · 07-14-2014, 08:53 AM

find tool finds folder by looking into file system. I am looking for locate(mlocate.db) which is very fast.

Habitual · 07-14-2014, 12:28 PM

Code:

locate .skype
/home/jj/.config/google-chrome/Default/Local Storage/https_login.skype.com_0.localstorage
/home/jj/.config/google-chrome/Default/Local Storage/https_login.skype.com_0.localstorage-journal
/home/jj/.config/google-chrome/Default/databases/https_login.skype.com_0
/home/jj/.config/google-chrome/Default/databases/https_login.skype.com_0/1

vs.

Code:

locate .Skype
...
/home/jj/.Skype.last/my-kungfu/httpfe/cookies.dat
/home/jj/.Skype.last/my-kungfu/config.xml
/home/jj/.Skype.last/my-kungfu/config.lck
/home/jj/.Skype.last/shared.lck

Doesn't look like locate supports case-sensitivity.

Use find.

ntubski · 07-14-2014, 02:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ddc

Tried with "locate -r "/home/username/.*/foldera$" -e -l 5" to find the foldera. It's failed. What am I missing here?

Working fine with "locate -r "/foldera$" -e -l 5". But, I want to find folder under home directory only.

I can't see how the first could fail if the second succeeds. What about:

Code:

locate -r '.*/foldera$' -e -l 5
locate -r '/.*/foldera$' -e -l 5
locate -r 'username/.*/foldera$' -e -l 5

Quote:

Originally Posted by ddc

How to list folderA also if exists in home directory. needs to consider case insensitive.

Quote:

http://linux.die.net/man/1/locate

-i, --ignore-case

Ignore case distinctions when matching patterns.

Habitual · 07-14-2014, 02:59 PM

or not.

syg00 · 07-14-2014, 07:36 PM

Note that patterns are handled differently for -r vs --regex if it contains globbing ...