[Ilugc] Tips of the day (Locate command)

  • From: yogeshg1987@xxxxxxxxx (Yogesh)
  • Date: Fri Jan 22 09:11:05 2010

2010/1/19 Vishnu Raj <vishnukraj007@xxxxxxxxx>


One thing to be aware of is that locate is case-sensitive: Searching
for HOWTO and for howto will give you different results.


One can use a -i switch to make the search case insensitive.

e.g

locate -i sOmEthinG

or

locate --ignore-case sOmEthiNg

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Warm Regards,
Yogesh.
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