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Asked: 2026-06-14T19:29:17+00:00

I want to use the locate command with regex but i am not able

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I want to use the locate command with regex but i am not able to use it.

I want to find pip file which is in /usr folder. i am trying this

locate -r "/usr/*pip"

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  1. Editorial Team

    To use globbing characters in your query you shouldn’t specify regex (as you do with -r option), so just do:

    locate "/usr/*pip"

    From the man page:

    If –regex is not specified, PATTERNs can contain globbing characters.
    If any PATTERN contains no globbing characters, locate behaves as if
    the pattern were *PATTERN*.

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