On Fri, Jul 04, 2025 at 01:40:42PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
Hi,
> > 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. :-)
Why not keep tag it helpwanted instead and leave it open? Maybe someone will
bite. "wontfix" sounds very final, as if you were against the feature in
principle.
András
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