The first question in the File Descriptors and Redirections "How many files exsit on the system that have the .log file extension? I’ve tried locate /*.log |wc -l…the answer I get doesn’t seem to work am I missing something?
locate
does not search on the file system. locate
search in a database prepared by the tool updatedb
.
The tool find
could be used to search for files in the file system.
See the documentation displayed by man locate
and man find
.