Ohh, two more things: On the following line, I failed to delete the last i (part of ignore)
> /rhk03/Dusan_scintilla_git/RS041-scintilla-syntax-highlighter/.giti Ahh, I think I found my problem -- .git is a directory, not a file -- sorry for the noise. On Tuesday, December 03, 2019 5:54:33 AM Rh Kramer wrote: > Notes: > > * In general, reply to the list, I am subscribed under a slightly > different username and will see any replies. > > * As is often the case, there is more than one way to skin this cat, > although I won't mind other approaches, especially if they are simpler, I > would like to learn what I'm doing wrong with locate --regex. > > Overall objective: > > I have several .git repositories on this computer. I want to get a list of > those repositories without getting a listing of all the files in each > repository. > > Each repository is in a different subdirectory, and with varying path > lengths (both in number of characters and number of parent directories). > > Each repository has several files, including one file ending with .git, > e.g.: > > /rhk03/Dusan_scintilla_git/RS041-scintilla-syntax-highlighter/.giti > /rhk03/Dusan_scintilla_git/scintilla-scite/.git > /rhk03/Dusan_scintilla_git/scintilla-scite-pre20190419/.git > /rhk03/chroot/scintilla-scite/Scintilla-SciTE/.git > /rhk03/chroot/scintilla-scite/Scintilla-SciTE.git/.git > /rhk03/chroot/scintilla-scite-pre20190419/.git > /rhk03/chroot/scintilla-scite-preKDevelop/.git > > (Just for the record, I edited the .gitignore results shown below to the the > .git results shown above, to show what I'm trying to get.) > > I believe I have achieved my objective by searching and finding similar > lines that end with .gitignore, using this locate command (I've achieved my > objective if every .git repository includes a file named .gitignore -- at > the moment, I believe that is true): > > locate --regex \/\.gitignore > > which finds: > > /rhk03/Dusan_scintilla_git/RS041-scintilla-syntax-highlighter/.gitignore > /rhk03/Dusan_scintilla_git/scintilla-scite/.gitignore > /rhk03/Dusan_scintilla_git/scintilla-scite-pre20190419/.gitignore > /rhk03/chroot/scintilla-scite/Scintilla-SciTE/.gitignore > /rhk03/chroot/scintilla-scite/Scintilla-SciTE.git/.gitignore > /rhk03/chroot/scintilla-scite-pre20190419/.gitignore > /rhk03/chroot/scintilla-scite-preKDevelop/.gitignore > > But I've had no luck finding only the paths that end in .git. I've tried a > number of locate commands (in almost a shotgun approach) none of them have > worked, and some have given me some really strange results (finding files in > /usr that have git somewhere in the filename, but not just .git) > > Some of the commands I tried: > > rhk@s31:/rhk03$ locate --regex \/\.git > rhk@s31:/rhk03$ locate --regex \/\.git[^\/] > rhk@s31:/rhk03$ locate --regex \/\.git[^\/][:blank:] > rhk@s31:/rhk03$ locate --regex \/git[^\.][:blank:] > rhk@s31:/rhk03$ locate --regex \.git[^\.][:blank:] > rhk@s31:/rhk03$ locate --regex \.git[\.][:blank:] > rhk@s31:/rhk03$ locate --regex \.git[:blank:] > > Any help / insights will be appreciated!
