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).