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Re: [TCLUG:9065] More regex...



> And...  When I use 'locate' I would like to be able to point it to just the
> exact match for a file name.
> Ex:
> 
> locate traceroute
> 
> returns:
> 
> /usr/doc/kde/HTML/en/knu/knu-traceroute.gif
> /usr/man/man8/traceroute.8
> /usr/sbin/traceroute
> /home/insyte/.kpackage/traceroute-1.4a5-16.i386.rpm
> 
> when all I really wanted was /usr/sbin/traceroute.
 
In addition to the command line Jon Schewe gave, you could use something
along the lines of 

locate traceroute | grep bin

Which will filter it down to anything in a path that has 'bin' in it
(/bin, /usr/bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin, etc.)

*shrug*  Whatever, just play with it..

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