Re: Enhancement request for 'locate'

[Bernhard Voelker]

Hi Seamus,

On 2/13/24 22:02, Seamus de Mora wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a request for the 'locate' program:

thanks.

> I would like to see an option added that would add the modification
> time/date to the results (files found by locate). This would be
> similar (even identical) to
> the output of 'ls -l <filename>'.

It seems there's not much echo on this, and given that many distros have
switched to sisters like mlocate or plocate, adding this here does not
seem to be needed.

BTW: given there are many variants of 'ls' output formats, why not simply
use a little wrapper like this (with the ls(1) options of your choice)?

locate-ls() {
  locate -0 "$@" | xargs -0 ls -ld
}

Have a nice day,
Berny