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(find.info)Invoking locate

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Invoking `locate'
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     locate [OPTION...] PATTERN...

`--database=PATH'
`-d PATH'
     Instead of searching the default file name database, search the
     file name databases in PATH, which is a colon-separated list of
     database file names.  You can also use the environment variable
     `LOCATE_PATH' to set the list of database files to search.  The
     option overrides the environment variable if both are used.

`--existing'
`-e'
     Only print out such names which currently exist (instead of such
     names which existed when the database was created).  Note that
     this may slow down the program a lot, if there are many matches in
     the database.

`--ignore-case'
`-i'
     Ignore case distinctions in both the pattern and the file names.

`--help'
     Print a summary of the options to `locate' and exit.

`--version'
     Print the version number of `locate' and exit.