Re: Status of updatedb

[Miloslav Trmac]

Hello,
James Youngman napsal(a):
> On 4/21/06, Miloslav Trmac <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> This particular wheel can't be easily used for the findutils car without
>> changing the findutils' interface, which I assume isn't desirable:
>> - locate(1) had to be compatible with slocate and thus the locate
>>   interface conflicts, at least in the -r option semantics.
> 
> The -r options are incompatible?   I didn't know.  How, exactly?
slocate -r (--regexp) specifies the (single) argument is a BRE.

findutils locate -r (--regex) specifies the (one or more) arguments are
EREs.
        Mirek