locate

allelopath · 03-24-2006, 12:30 PM

I want to find all files named "ab", but only ab and not, for example abc, abd, cab, ...
So I want to grep but not sure how to do it.

locate ab | grep <something that filters out abc but not ab>

Anybody know how to do this?

bulliver · 03-24-2006, 01:26 PM

Use find:

Code:

$ find / -name ab -print

allelopath · 03-24-2006, 02:04 PM

thanks....

bulliver · 03-24-2006, 02:07 PM

It may be possible to use grep, but after a quick play I gave up. The problem is that if you tell grep to match only "ab", it will not match the filepath that locate prints.

The problem with find is that it takes a long time searching. If you only need to search a particular directory or subdirectory then you can change the first argument: "/".