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| author | Kevin Dalley <kevin@seti.org> | 1998-02-27 09:35:38 +0000 |
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| committer | Kevin Dalley <kevin@seti.org> | 1998-02-27 09:35:38 +0000 |
| commit | 7a66748dc55d9c653b31bdfb5ba52886bd738307 (patch) | |
| tree | 134da4ea70315e6249c4c56e638a14dd8f50d114 /locate/locate.1 | |
| parent | b47bc7a3d3a1ab6b0d60668bbe1546227ad2cd57 (diff) | |
| download | findutils-7a66748dc55d9c653b31bdfb5ba52886bd738307.tar.gz | |
add documentation for "--existing" option to locate
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| -rw-r--r-- | locate/locate.1 | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/locate/locate.1 b/locate/locate.1 index dde9cc63..2e3c2a94 100644 --- a/locate/locate.1 +++ b/locate/locate.1 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ locate \- list files in databases that match a pattern .SH SYNOPSIS .B locate -[\-d path] [\-\-database=path] [\-\-version] [\-\-help] pattern... +[\-d path | \-\-database=path] [-e | --existing] [\-\-version] [\-\-help] pattern... .SH DESCRIPTION This manual page documents the GNU version of @@ -60,6 +60,12 @@ or Unix versions of or .BR find . .TP +.I "\-e, \-\-existing" +Only print out such names that currently exist (instead of such names +that existed when the database was created). +Note that this may slow down the program a lot, if there are many matches +in the database. +.TP .I "\-\-help" Print a summary of the options to .B locate |