James Youngman wrote:
> I understand that "locate -r" works differently between GNU locate on
> the one hand, and both mlocate and slocate on the other. GNU
> locate uses Emacs-dialect regular expressions. Both mlocate and
> slocate use POSIX BREs.
That does seem to be a gratuitous differenc
Update of bug #22832 (project findutils):
Status:None => Invalid
Assigned to:None => jay
Open/Closed:Open => Closed
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On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:05 PM, James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As the community of users of
> GNU locate, what are your preferences?
Nobody answered at all. Really, does nobody have a preference?
James.
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #22832 (project findutils):
Unix tools have never used the "tool ?" syntax, since it's essentially
inconvenient; "?" is a shell wildcard:
$ echo ?
c X
To pass a literal ? reliably to a program, it would need to be escaped:
$ echo '?' ; echo ?
?
?
The fact that the sh
