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LOCATE(1L)							    LOCATE(1L)

NAME
       locate - list files in databases that match a pattern

SYNOPSIS
       locate  [-d  path  | --database=path] [-e | --existing] [-i | --ignore-
       case ] [--version] [--help] pattern...

DESCRIPTION
       This manual page documents the GNU version of locate.  For  each	 given
       pattern,	 locate	 searches one or more databases of file names and dis‐
       plays the file names that contain the pattern.	Patterns  can  contain
       shell-style  metacharacters: `*', `?', and `[]'.	 The metacharacters do
       not treat `/' or `.'  specially.	 Therefore, a  pattern	`foo*bar'  can
       match  a file name that contains `foo3/bar', and a pattern `*duck*' can
       match a file name that contains `lake/.ducky'.  Patterns	 that  contain
       metacharacters  should  be quoted to protect them from expansion by the
       shell.

       If a pattern is a plain string — it contains no metacharacters — locate
       displays	 all  file names in the database that contain that string any‐
       where.  If a pattern does contain metacharacters, locate only  displays
       file  names that match the pattern exactly.  As a result, patterns that
       contain metacharacters should usually begin with a `*', and  will  most
       often  end  with	 one  as  well.	  The exceptions are patterns that are
       intended to explicitly match the beginning or end of a file name.

       The file name databases contain lists of files that were on the	system
       when  the  databases  were  last updated.  The system administrator can
       choose the file name of the default database, the frequency with	 which
       the  databases  are updated, and the directories for which they contain
       entries; see updatedb(1L).

OPTIONS
       -d path, --database=path
	      Instead of searching the default file name database, search  the
	      file  name databases in path, which is a colon-separated list of
	      database file names.  You can also use the environment  variable
	      LOCATE_PATH  to  set  the list of database files to search.  The
	      option overrides the environment variable if both are used.

       The file name database format changed starting with GNU find and locate
       version	4.0 to allow machines with diffent byte orderings to share the
       databases.  This version of locate can automatically recognize and read
       databases produced for older versions of GNU locate or Unix versions of
       locate or find.

       -e, --existing
	      Only print out such names that currently exist (instead of  such
	      names  that  existed  when the database was created).  Note that
	      this may slow down the program a lot, if there are many  matches
	      in the database.

       -i, --ignore-case
	      Ignore case distinctions in both the pattern and the file names.

       --help Print a summary of the options to locate and exit.

       --version
	      Print the version number of locate and exit.

ENVIRONMENT
       LOCATE_PATH
	      Colon-separated list of databases to search.

SEE ALSO
       find(1L),  locatedb(5L), updatedb(1L), xargs(1L) Finding Files (on-line
       in Info, or printed)

								    LOCATE(1L)
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