plocate

Clone of https://plocate.sesse.net/

Original README

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• Install Requirements
• Install plocate
• Result
• Usage

Install Requirements

sudo apt install meson
# sudo apt install ninja-build
sudo apt install libzstd-dev (1.3.3+dfsg-2ubuntu1.1)
sudo apt install zstd (1.3.3+dfsg-2ubuntu1.1)

Install plocate

cd plocate
meson obj
cd obj
ninja
l
./plocate
./plocate x
sudo ninja install

Result

The following files will be installed:

plocate                                               -> /usr/local/bin/plocate
plocate-build                                         -> /usr/local/sbin/plocate-build
/home/flow/temp/plocate-1.0.5/plocate.1               -> /usr/local/share/man/man1
/home/flow/temp/plocate-1.0.5/plocate-build.8         -> /usr/local/share/man/man8
/home/flow/temp/plocate-1.0.5/obj/update-plocate.sh   -> /etc/cron.daily

Usage

To update the DB and then search for substring or POSIX extended regular expressions:

sudo ./update-plocate.sh
sudo plocate foo
sudo plocate --regex 'foo.*bar' | less -SRN#5