On Fri, Jul 04, 2025 at 11:07:39AM +0200, Andras Korn wrote: > it has often happened that I wanted to efficiently find files based on not > their name, but their metadata -- such as who owns them, or when they were > modified, or some combination thereof. > > Of course, find(1) can do all that (albeit very slowly), but since updatedb > scans all directories anyway, it might as well record and index this > information as well, in addition to the filenames. > > Perhaps, instead of inventing a new syntax, include a plocate-find that > supports the same syntax as find(1)?
Hi, Thanks for the feature request. Given the amount of work and the increased size of plocate.db, I doubt I will be doing this. I can close this bug or mark it as wontfix, depending on how visible you want it. :-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: https://www.sesse.net/
