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LOCATE(1L)							    LOCATE(1L)

NAME
       locate - list files in databases that match a pattern

SYNOPSIS
       locate [-d path] [--database=path] pattern...

DESCRIPTION
       This  manual  page documents the GNU version of locate.	For each given
       pattern, locate searches one or more databases of  file	pathnames  and
       displays	 the pathnames that contain the pattern.  Patterns can contain
       shell-style metacharacters: `*', `?', and `[]'.	The metacharacters  do
       not  treat `/' or `.'  specially.  Patterns that contain metacharacters
       should be quoted to protect them from expansion by the shell.

       If a pattern is a plain string — it contains no metacharacters — locate
       displays	 all  pathnames	 in the database that contain that string any‐
       where.  If a pattern does  contain  metacharacters,  it	only  displays
       pathnames  that	match the pattern exactly.  As a result, patterns that
       contain metacharacters should usually begin with a `*', and  will  most
       often  end  with	 one  as  well.	  The exceptions are patterns that are
       intended to explicitly match the beginning or end of a pathname.

       The filename databases contain lists of the files that were on the sys‐
       tem  whenever  the  database  was  last	updated.   The pathname of the
       default database, the frequency with  which  it	is  updated,  and  the
       directories  for which it contains entries are configurable by the sys‐
       tem administrator.

       locate supports having multiple filename databases; for example,	 there
       could  be one on each filesystem.  You can tell locate to use alternate
       filename databases instead of the default one by giving	a  colon-sepa‐
       rated  list  of	database  pathnames as either an argument to the -d or
       --database  options  or	as  the	 value	of  the	 environment  variable
       LOCATE_PATH.  The option overrides the environment variable if both are
       used.

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