Re: locate question

["Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com>]

On Tuesday 07 November 2023 11:32:21 am gene heskett wrote:
> 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

Try putting a * before the period in that find command?

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