Re: Help with --regex in locate

[rhkramer@gmail.com]

Andrei,

Thanks very much!  (Please forgive the nitpicky comment below.)


On Tuesday, December 03, 2019 07:16:22 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> With 'find' instead of 'locate'.
> 
>     find dir_with_repos -type d -name .git
> 
> or
> 
>     find dir_with_repos -type d -name "*.git"
> 
> if you also have git bare clones ('-name' expects a shell pattern).

It took me a minute (well, a trial) to realize that dir_with_repos is a 
metaname (right word?).  I prefer a syntax like: 

find <dir_with_repos> -type d -name .git