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locate lacks -r regular expression flag in Cygwin


I'm running this version of Cygwin:

CYGWIN_NT-5.1 den-aet-xpw002 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown
unknown Cygwin

on Windows XP Pro.

On Linux, I use the "-r" flag to search for regular expressions as shown
below:

$ locate --version
GNU locate version 4.1.7

KChristian@den-aet-xpw002 ~
$ locate -r "test.*xls"
locate: invalid option -- r
Usage: locate [-d path | --database=path] [-e | --existing]
      [-i | --ignore-case] [--version] [--help] pattern...


Is there any reason why the version of "locate" in Cygwin doesn't support
this?  Is it a limitation of Microsoft's NTFS file system?

Thanks.

=====Keith

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