Re: Finding .m files on Mac with Tiger

[Paul Kienzle]

On Jul 15, 2005, at 7:43 PM, Mike Miller wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Paul Kienzle wrote:
>
> > locate is also very useful:
> >
> >         locate .m
> >
> > Usually you need to use it with grep:
> >
> >         locate .m | grep "filt.*[.]m$"  ;# find all filt*.m files
>
> But won't that match things like this:
>
> /home/bob/filth/porn.m
>
> I'm only half joking - the thing is that the '.*' in the regex could 
> match a slash '/' and the 'filt' could be part of a directory name.  I 
> think this will do it correctly:
>
> locate "*.m" | egrep 'filt[^/]*\.m$'

In practice I compose a variety of these on the fly so I try to keep 
them simple.  If they return too many results, then I write in more 
explicit searches.  For example, using Przemek's foo I will now be 
typing:

        locate "*.m" | grep filt

Or maybe even

        locate "*.m" | less

then in less

        /filt<CR>nnnnn


- Paul



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