On Sep 12, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > 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"? 'locate [PATTERN]'; it is, I believe case-sensitive. Noting, of course, that the locate database is only updated once a day or so (you can force it with "updatedb", but it can take a while). -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 70E5 4CE7 2860
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