can I access output of locate?

can I access output of locate?

[zzapper]

locate my.cnf
/etc/my.cnf
/backup/my.cnf

so I could cd to say 2nd entry


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Re: can I access output of locate?

[zzapper]

zzapper <david@rayninfo.co.uk> wrote in 
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> locate my.cnf
> /etc/my.cnf
> /backup/my.cnf

In a response to a query:-
Can I load the output of locate into a zsh array



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Re: can I access output of locate?

[Edelwin Khaelos]

yes, that's what pipes and variables are made for.

Le 13/03/2015 17:46, zzapper a écrit :
> zzapper <david@rayninfo.co.uk> wrote in
> news:XnsA45CA6B27FC84davidrayninfocouk@80.91.229.13:
>
>> locate my.cnf
>> /etc/my.cnf
>> /backup/my.cnf
>
> In a response to a query:-
> Can I load the output of locate into a zsh array
>
>
>

Re: can I access output of locate?

[zzapper]

Edelwin Khaelos <edelwin@mailoo.org> wrote in news:55031519.9020906
@mailoo.org:
variables


# then to answer my own question
a=($(locate my.cnf))  # the outer () are important

echo ${a[1]}





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Re: can I access output of locate?

[ZyX]

13.03.2015, 20:19, "zzapper" <david@rayninfo.co.uk>:
> Edelwin Khaelos <edelwin@mailoo.org> wrote in news:55031519.9020906
> @mailoo.org:
> variables
>
> # then to answer my own question
> a=($(locate my.cnf))  # the outer () are important

Now locate something with a space. This variant works only as long as you are certain you have no characters from IFS in a file name.

Thus you should use a=( ${(0)"$(locate -0 my.cnf)"} ).

>
> echo ${a[1]}
>
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Re: can I access output of locate?

[Bart Schaefer]

On Mar 13, 10:01pm, ZyX wrote:
}
} Now locate something with a space. This variant works only as long as
} you are certain you have no characters from IFS in a file name.
}
} Thus you should use a=( ${(0)"$(locate -0 my.cnf)"} ).

Or

    locate -0 my.cnf | IFS=$'\0' read -A a

which might be slightly faster if there are a LOT of hits from locate.