On 2023-11-07 at 11:32, gene heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > I dunno if I've forgot how to use it, or it broken by the same bug that > killing me with the lagging access to my home raid10. > > Fact: there are probably over 100 files in my /home/gene directory and > all its subs with assorted names ending in ".scad", made by OpenSCAD > Fact: I just ran "sudo updatedb" and generated a new date just now, > /var/cache/locate/locatedb.n > so that s/b uptodate. > Al of those files should be spit out by: > "locate *.scad" issued from an xfce terminal > but I get: > gene@coyote:~$ locate *.scad > /home/gene/vac_ctrl_box.scad > /home/gene/xhome_cable.scad Try instead: $ locate '*.scad' That should prevent the shell from expanding the wildcard before running the command. > Acc an ls -R|wc -l there are > 433179 > files in my /home/gene directory > > so locate isn't working as I think it should. > try find but it finds the whole my whole local net: > gene@coyote:~$ find .scad . |wc -l > find: ‘.scad’: No such file or directory > 1176532 Try $ find . -name '*.scad' > What am I doing wrong? For locate, you're not quoting the arguments properly. For find, you're also putting the arguments in the wrong order. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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