On 9/12/25 5:36 AM, Roger Price wrote:
On Fri, 12 Sep 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:My current environment is Debian 12, MATE, Caja file manager. SeaMonkey 2.53.21 is my browser. While searching my disk for a one PDF I discovered I had: 1. multiple copies of that file. 2. copies of similarly named files I was preparing to download.Do you have package plocate installed ? It provides command locate which I find very helpful for finding PDFś and other files. Roger
It is not installed. It's homepage, https://plocate.sesse.net/ , gives just enough information to prompt further investigation.
I was about to post that I had just found the "find" command when a web search had led me to https://linuxhandbook.com/find-files-by-name/ which prompted me to successfully try [ find -iname '*xyz*' ] which all files or directories with "xyz" or "XYZ" in their name.
Is there a similar page demonstrating "plocate"? Thank you.