who can do me a favor to spell the command clause between "locate" and "ls"

[frederick van targero_1]

I want to locate the files with keyword, then use ll or ls for details, however, I always fell to spell the clause,eg:
#locate route || ls
??
it can not work.
How to use the locate as input for the ls or ll?
thanks
frederick

[Karthik S S · Accepted solution]

ll `locate route`

-Karthik S S

[U.SivaKumar_2]

Hi,

#ll `locate sendmail` | more

` - quote in the left top of the keyboard below Esc key.


regards,

U.SivaKumar

[Nicolas Dumeige]

Just so you know : which and type can help you find command wich are in you path.

If you don't get a result this way, try :
find root_search_directory -name '*pattern*' -exec ls -l {} \;

[U.SivaKumar_2]

Hi,

please note that locate command is not used to find newly created files. In that case find command is the solution.

regards,

U.SivaKumar.

[Rick Beldin]

I do something like this:

for i in `locate X11`
do
file $i
done


You get every file as new variable and then you can individually do something with it.

Another, searches contents of files I found with locate for some string:

for i in `locate filesImaybeInterestedIn`
do
echo $i
grep SomeString $i
done

You can use the same technique with find.