locate

• updatedb was little more than a wrapper around find

• locate is little more than a wrapper around egrep

        my @COMMAND =  ('egrep', @GREPFLAGS, $PAT, $DB);

        exec @COMMAND;
        die "$0: Couldn't run 'grep' command:\n\t@COMMAND\n\t$!\n"; 

        sub usage {
          ...
        }

• I finally have an excuse for not using Getopt::Long:

• I want the program to accept all options

• Then it will pass the unrecognized ones on to grep

• So it will support all of grep's zillions of options

Next

Menu

Copyright © 2005 M. J. Dominus