[plug] How to "locate *.foo" ??

[Gregory Orange]

Michael Holland wrote:
> The useful locate command has been replaced with slocate, but I'm not 
> sure how to get the old behavior for a simple "locate *.foo" .
>   In the old version, that would get me all filenames with that extension,
> but now it returns all files with .foo anywhere in the name, as if I
> asked for *.foo*  . Why??
>   There is a -regexp option, but   "slocate --regexp '.*\.foo$' "
> matches nothing. Why doesn't the $ match end of filename?
> 
> cheers, Mike

Hehe that's something I've never understood. So I use
"locate .foo | egrep \.foo$"

Ciao,
Greg.